BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Overconfidence Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 45.2% saturation with 76 hits. Analysis detected 316 faulty-reasoning hits from 168 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 79.8% and a BS Rank of 87% (2,857 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 87.00% of the article peer group.
Journalist Michael Scherer had a lofty goal for his profile of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
He wanted to “help narrow the political divide” separating the country.
Scherer thought that the key was understanding how Kennedy had morphed from an environmental activist and proud Democrat into a MAGA insider, serving as Donald Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services.
But Scherer’s relationship with Kennedy was tense.
They’d argue about scientific studies, and RFK believes everything written about him is pretty much the same — and unfair.
Still, he and Scherer spent a lot of time together.
The result is a detailed portrait of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the man who Scherer says is a Rorschach test for how Americans understand “the populist furies riling the country.”
He joins us to talk about why RFK is so convinced he’s right.
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Michael Scherer is a staff writer for The Atlantic.
His story is called “Why is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., So Convinced He’s Right?”
You can read it here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/01/rfk-jr-public-health-science/684948/
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