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Talking about sick, deranged people … ⁠81%

By Pedro Molina⁠0%

6/28/2026, 12:30:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Biased Writer Voice, and In-Group Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 59.5% saturation with 47 hits. Analysis detected 269 faulty-reasoning hits from 79 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 72.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠81% (4,201 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 80.80% of the article peer group.

A cartoon by Pedro Molina. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 4.6%Daily Kos: 5.7%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 3.3%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 59.5%Pedro Molina: 24.5%Daily Kos: 8.9%Framing Effect59.5%This article: 10.1%Pedro Molina: 14.3%Daily Kos: 0.6%Loss Aversion10.1%This article: 6.3%Pedro Molina: 2.1%Daily Kos: 0.3%Status Quo Bias6.3%This article: 17.7%Pedro Molina: 5.9%Daily Kos: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect17.7%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 22.8%Pedro Molina: 7.6%Daily Kos: 2.0%Pessimism Bias22.8%This article: 7.6%Pedro Molina: 5.1%Daily Kos: 15.4%Negativity Bias7.6%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 2.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 32.9%Pedro Molina: 16.0%Daily Kos: 2.1%In-Group Bias32.9%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.8%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 2.5%Daily Kos: 0.8%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.5%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 7.6%Pedro Molina: 12.2%Daily Kos: 5.8%Ad Hominem7.6%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 3.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 15.2%Pedro Molina: 10.1%Daily Kos: 2.3%False Dilemma15.2%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 9.8%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.5%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 25.3%Pedro Molina: 14.3%Daily Kos: 7.3%Appeal to Emotion25.3%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 4.6%Daily Kos: 1.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 3.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.5%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.8%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 2.0%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 13.9%Pedro Molina: 4.6%Daily Kos: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)13.9%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 2.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 7.6%Pedro Molina: 2.5%Daily Kos: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection7.6%This article: 48.1%Pedro Molina: 18.6%Daily Kos: 23.1%Biased Writer Voice48.1%This article: 15.2%Pedro Molina: 11.0%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination15.2%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 14.3%Daily Kos: 10.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Pedro Molina: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 50.6%Pedro Molina: 22.8%Daily Kos: 2.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…50.6%

79 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker6.3%attributed speech74writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coveragePedro Molina • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Pedro Molina

0%flagged-word coverage
5 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%27.5%55.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -54.1 ptsWriter: 54.1%Pedro Molina: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-51.4 ptsWriter: 51.4%Pedro Molina: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination-16.2 ptsWriter: 16.2%Pedro Molina: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-8.1 ptsWriter: 8.1%Pedro Molina: 0.0%0.0%

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

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Analysis

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