BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Post Hoc (False Cause), and Optimism Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 30.4% saturation with 52 hits. Analysis detected 230 faulty-reasoning hits from 171 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 42.4% and a BS Rank of 35% (14,344 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 65.50% of the article peer group.
That loophole is enabled by a 20-pound device, called a node.
You stick it in the ground, it connects to a satellite, and then it listens for anomalies beneath the earth—anomalies that could indicate the presence of things like copper, gold, lithium, or other important minerals.
These are the kinds of resources that make modern life possible.
And because these nodes make a relatively small impact, there aren’t yet regulations about where they can be placed.
The journalist Lauren Steele has been covering this story for “The Atlantic.”
She accompanied two mountain guides who’d been paid to plant these nodes in Utah’s Tushar Mountains.
She’s joining us to talk about how these nodes are changing the future of mining in Utah, elsewhere around the country, and maybe even in outer space.
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Lauren Steele | Journalist and filmmaker.
The story she wrote for “The Atlantic” is called “The Mysterious Devices Speeding Mining Exploration in Utah.”
Airdate: Apr.
8, 2026
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