KCUR⁠57%

Bram Sable-Smith | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR ⁠7%

By Bram Sable-Smith⁠52%

7/18/2026, 1:09:34 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 39.4% saturation with 39 hits. Analysis detected 68 faulty-reasoning hits from 99 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 22.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠7% (20,482 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 93.60% of the article peer group.

Bram Sable-Smith, Midwest correspondent, joined KFF Health News after eight years covering public health and the social safety net for Wisconsin Public Radio; the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism; KBIA in Columbia, Missouri; and Side Effects Public Media, a public media reporting collaborative in the Midwest specializing in health issues. 
He also taught radio journalism at the University of Missouri. 
Bram’s reporting has received national recognition, including two Edward R. 
Murrow Awards, two Sigma Delta Chi Awards, and two health policy awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 2.0%Columbia Missourian: 1.7%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.4%Columbia Missourian: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 8.9%Columbia Missourian: 2.7%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 2.2%Columbia Missourian: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.2%Columbia Missourian: 0.4%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 1.1%Columbia Missourian: 1.3%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 2.6%Columbia Missourian: 5.5%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 2.0%Columbia Missourian: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.6%Columbia Missourian: 0.7%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.3%Columbia Missourian: 0.3%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 3.5%Columbia Missourian: 4.5%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 2.1%Columbia Missourian: 1.6%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 6.9%Columbia Missourian: 5.4%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.6%Columbia Missourian: 1.7%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.8%Columbia Missourian: 0.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.3%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 2.2%Columbia Missourian: 1.6%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 1.5%Columbia Missourian: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 39.4%Bram Sable-Smith: 1.5%Columbia Missourian: 2.4%Halo Effect39.4%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 1.1%Columbia Missourian: 0.9%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.6%Columbia Missourian: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.1%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 1.3%Columbia Missourian: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.2%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 29.3%Bram Sable-Smith: 3.9%Columbia Missourian: 2.9%Appeal to Authority29.3%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 1.3%Columbia Missourian: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 1.6%Columbia Missourian: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 4.8%Columbia Missourian: 3.6%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 1.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 3.1%Columbia Missourian: 5.2%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.6%Columbia Missourian: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 2.3%Columbia Missourian: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.2%Columbia Missourian: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.4%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.5%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 9.1%Columbia Missourian: 2.6%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.8%Columbia Missourian: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.2%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.5%Columbia Missourian: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.0%Columbia Missourian: 0.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.5%Columbia Missourian: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.7%Columbia Missourian: 2.9%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.2%Columbia Missourian: 1.3%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.4%Columbia Missourian: 0.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.4%Columbia Missourian: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Bram Sable-Smith: 0.6%Columbia Missourian: 1.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

99 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker90%attributed speech10writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageBram Sable-Smith • 50 words • 0.0% coverageBram Sable-Smith • 10 words • 0.0% coverageBram Sable-Smith • 10 words • 0.0% coverageBram Sable-Smith • 19 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Bram Sable-Smith

44%flagged-word coverage
89 attributed words100% of attributed speech0% writer coverage

No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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