L.A. TACO⁠85%

Sunday Taquitos #14: Great Americans⁠70%

By Ivan Ehlers⁠0%

2/8/2026, 8:30:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Availability Heuristic, and Framing Effect, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 75% saturation with 6 hits. Analysis detected 18 faulty-reasoning hits from 8 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 62.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠70% (6,758 of 21,886 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 69.10% of the article peer group.

Sunday Taquitos! 
Art by Ivan Ehlers. 
Ivan Ehlers 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 7.1%L.A. TACO: 3.9%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 7.1%L.A. TACO: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 25.0%Ivan Ehlers: 42.9%L.A. TACO: 4.1%Availability Heuristic25.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 1.7%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 25.0%Ivan Ehlers: 35.7%L.A. TACO: 11.5%Framing Effect25.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 25.0%Ivan Ehlers: 10.7%L.A. TACO: 2.4%Optimism Bias25.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.9%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 14.3%L.A. TACO: 11.3%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 4.9%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 1.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 75.0%Ivan Ehlers: 50.0%L.A. TACO: 6.0%Halo Effect75.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 7.1%L.A. TACO: 1.0%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 25.0%Ivan Ehlers: 25.0%L.A. TACO: 0.4%Primacy Effect25.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 1.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.5%Straw Man0.0%This article: 50.0%Ivan Ehlers: 46.4%L.A. TACO: 3.6%Appeal to Authority50.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 3.6%L.A. TACO: 5.8%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 17.9%L.A. TACO: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 3.6%L.A. TACO: 1.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 28.6%L.A. TACO: 10.8%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.9%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 5.7%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 17.9%L.A. TACO: 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 7.1%L.A. TACO: 0.5%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 1.4%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 14.3%L.A. TACO: 8.7%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 2.9%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 0.0%L.A. TACO: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ivan Ehlers: 14.3%L.A. TACO: 2.9%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

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