Two American Soldiers Killed as Trump’s Iran War Spirals ⁠94%

By Sam Stein⁠91% Mark Hertling⁠48%

7/18/2026, 11:44:38 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Appeal to Emotion, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 83.1% saturation with 64 hits. Analysis detected 233 faulty-reasoning hits from 77 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 90% and a BS Rank of ⁠94% (1,293 of 20,495 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 93.70% of the article peer group.

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Mark Hertling (Ret.) take on the deadly Iranian strike on a U.S. base in Jordan, the mounting American casualties, and a rapidly widening war with no clear path to de-escalation. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 2.8%The Bulwark: 5.8%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.4%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 4.3%The Bulwark: 3.0%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.4%The Bulwark: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 1.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 50.6%Sam Stein: 16.4%The Bulwark: 6.9%Framing Effect50.6%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.3%The Bulwark: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.2%The Bulwark: 1.6%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 1.5%The Bulwark: 2.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 50.6%Sam Stein: 28.8%The Bulwark: 11.4%Negativity Bias50.6%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.7%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.6%The Bulwark: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 3.2%The Bulwark: 3.0%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 3.6%The Bulwark: 1.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.4%The Bulwark: 1.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.4%The Bulwark: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 1.9%The Bulwark: 1.6%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.2%The Bulwark: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 8.0%The Bulwark: 3.3%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 2.8%The Bulwark: 0.8%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 2.4%The Bulwark: 3.5%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 2.5%The Bulwark: 2.3%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 9.0%The Bulwark: 8.3%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 4.7%The Bulwark: 0.6%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 50.6%Sam Stein: 5.1%The Bulwark: 5.8%Appeal to Emotion50.6%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 1.6%The Bulwark: 1.4%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 1.2%The Bulwark: 2.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.4%The Bulwark: 0.8%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 2.1%The Bulwark: 2.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 1.2%The Bulwark: 1.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.0%The Bulwark: 0.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 1.6%The Bulwark: 2.1%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 1.2%The Bulwark: 1.4%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 83.1%Sam Stein: 24.1%The Bulwark: 15.4%Biased Writer Voice83.1%This article: 23.4%Sam Stein: 3.2%The Bulwark: 2.8%Indoctrination23.4%This article: 11.7%Sam Stein: 14.2%The Bulwark: 5.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias11.7%This article: 0.0%Sam Stein: 0.4%The Bulwark: 0.6%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 32.5%Sam Stein: 24.8%The Bulwark: 4.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…32.5%

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