MS NOW⁠95%

The Last Word⁠57%

By Lawrence O’Donnell⁠0%

10/29/2025, 11:44:07 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Begging the Question, and Halo Effect, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 62.5% saturation with 20 hits. Analysis detected 100 faulty-reasoning hits from 149 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 54.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠57% (8,985 of 20,916 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 57.00% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.8%MS NOW: 1.2%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 3.3%MS NOW: 3.7%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.2%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 62.5%Lawrence O’Donnell: 7.7%MS NOW: 7.6%Confirmation Bias62.5%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 62.5%Lawrence O’Donnell: 21.3%MS NOW: 15.5%Framing Effect62.5%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 3.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 37.5%Lawrence O’Donnell: 27.9%MS NOW: 2.2%Halo Effect37.5%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 1.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 1.8%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 25.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 5.0%MS NOW: 3.5%In-Group Bias25.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.7%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 3.9%MS NOW: 19.3%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 3.3%MS NOW: 2.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 2.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 2.6%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 3.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.8%MS NOW: 0.6%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 3.3%MS NOW: 1.8%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 2.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 4.1%MS NOW: 0.9%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 4.8%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 2.6%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 25.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 26.2%MS NOW: 5.4%Appeal to Authority25.0%This article: 37.5%Lawrence O’Donnell: 8.8%MS NOW: 9.8%Appeal to Emotion37.5%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 2.2%MS NOW: 0.9%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 62.5%Lawrence O’Donnell: 11.0%MS NOW: 2.4%Begging the Question62.5%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.9%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 2.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 1.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 8.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.3%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 3.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.7%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 2.2%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.3%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 1.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Lawrence O’Donnell: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.6%Tu Quoque0.0%

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Analysis

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