Meeting at Vatican last year was ‘unsettling,’ Vance writes in new book ⁠83%

By Natalie Allison⁠0%

6/15/2026, 6:29:13 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Biased Writer Voice, and Confirmation Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 51 hits. Analysis detected 399 faulty-reasoning hits from 51 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 75% and a BS Rank of ⁠83% (3,553 of 20,370 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 82.60% of the article peer group.

Vice President JD Vance says his meeting last year with Vatican diplomats in Rome was “unsettling” as the officials uttered what he describes as “trite platitudes” and “clichés,” adding that he preferred the direct rebukes offered by Pope Francis. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 76.5%Natalie Allison: 4.8%The Washington Post: 3.8%Confirmation Bias76.5%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 1.0%The Washington Post: 1.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 76.5%Natalie Allison: 3.6%The Washington Post: 4.9%Availability Heuristic76.5%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 1.8%The Washington Post: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.2%The Washington Post: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 2.1%The Washington Post: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 76.5%Natalie Allison: 19.8%The Washington Post: 21.5%Framing Effect76.5%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.2%The Washington Post: 0.8%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.9%The Washington Post: 0.9%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 4.4%The Washington Post: 3.6%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 3.6%The Washington Post: 3.6%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 100.0%Natalie Allison: 15.7%The Washington Post: 18.5%Negativity Bias100.0%This article: 76.5%Natalie Allison: 1.9%The Washington Post: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias76.5%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 1.3%The Washington Post: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 2.7%The Washington Post: 2.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 1.0%The Washington Post: 0.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 3.1%The Washington Post: 2.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 1.7%The Washington Post: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 1.4%The Washington Post: 2.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.9%The Washington Post: 1.0%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.4%The Washington Post: 0.9%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.8%The Washington Post: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 4.2%The Washington Post: 5.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 1.4%The Washington Post: 1.5%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 3.2%The Washington Post: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.4%The Washington Post: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 5.4%The Washington Post: 5.9%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.5%The Washington Post: 0.5%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 7.3%The Washington Post: 6.3%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 2.1%The Washington Post: 1.0%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.5%The Washington Post: 4.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.2%The Washington Post: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 1.1%The Washington Post: 0.6%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 100.0%Natalie Allison: 1.7%The Washington Post: 1.9%Anecdotal100.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 76.5%Natalie Allison: 3.3%The Washington Post: 2.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)76.5%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.2%The Washington Post: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.3%The Washington Post: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 76.5%Natalie Allison: 4.0%The Washington Post: 4.8%Unattributed Quote76.5%This article: 23.5%Natalie Allison: 3.7%The Washington Post: 2.5%Quote-first Misdirection23.5%This article: 100.0%Natalie Allison: 11.4%The Washington Post: 15.2%Biased Writer Voice100.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 1.4%The Washington Post: 2.0%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 2.2%The Washington Post: 3.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 4.0%The Washington Post: 1.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Natalie Allison: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

51 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker76%attributed speech12writer words
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Writer's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageJD Vance • 39 words • 100.0% coverage
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JD Vance

100%flagged-word coverage
39 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%JD Vance: 100.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection-100.0 ptsWriter: 100.0%JD Vance: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice+0.0 ptsWriter: 100.0%JD Vance: 100.0%100.0%

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

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