MS NOW⁠95%

‘Always dangerous’: Former CIA director on Trump’s inconsistent claims about Iran’s military strength ⁠94%

By Alina Kim⁠0%

5/17/2026, 4:33:22 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Quote-first Misdirection, Biased Writer Voice, and Confirmation Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 79.1% saturation with 68 hits. Analysis detected 518 faulty-reasoning hits from 86 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 89.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠94% (1,404 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 93.60% of the article peer group.

“It’s always dangerous when the President of the United States misleads the public and lies about things like this … It’s clear that their comments are inconsistent with all the reporting that has come out about the intelligence community’s assessments that determine that still, Iran has a large portion of its missile capabilities and inventory.” 
Former CIA Director John Brennan joins The Weekend to discuss the latest with President Trump’s war with Iran. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 64.0%Alina Kim: 19.7%MS NOW: 7.5%Confirmation Bias64.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 2.6%MS NOW: 1.2%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 6.2%MS NOW: 3.7%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.0%MS NOW: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.8%MS NOW: 1.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 3.5%MS NOW: 2.6%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 15.1%Alina Kim: 52.2%MS NOW: 15.4%Framing Effect15.1%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 1.5%MS NOW: 0.7%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.9%MS NOW: 0.9%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 3.6%MS NOW: 2.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 3.3%MS NOW: 3.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 79.1%Alina Kim: 52.5%MS NOW: 19.2%Negativity Bias79.1%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 1.0%MS NOW: 2.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 5.7%MS NOW: 3.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 11.0%MS NOW: 3.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 8.6%MS NOW: 2.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 7.0%MS NOW: 2.2%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 1.5%MS NOW: 1.8%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 5.4%MS NOW: 1.8%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 15.1%Alina Kim: 2.1%MS NOW: 0.6%Primacy Effect15.1%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.6%MS NOW: 0.2%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 5.2%MS NOW: 4.7%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 3.7%MS NOW: 1.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 64.0%Alina Kim: 28.6%MS NOW: 5.4%Appeal to Authority64.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 4.8%MS NOW: 2.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 2.6%MS NOW: 2.2%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 14.5%MS NOW: 8.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 1.1%MS NOW: 0.7%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 4.3%MS NOW: 0.9%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 15.1%Alina Kim: 28.1%MS NOW: 9.8%Appeal to Emotion15.1%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 5.4%MS NOW: 2.4%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 4.1%MS NOW: 3.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.6%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 64.0%Alina Kim: 3.1%MS NOW: 0.9%Burden of Proof64.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.6%MS NOW: 2.6%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 64.0%Alina Kim: 4.8%MS NOW: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)64.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.6%MS NOW: 0.3%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.3%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 1.5%MS NOW: 1.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 1.0%MS NOW: 2.5%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 79.1%Alina Kim: 6.6%MS NOW: 1.5%Quote-first Misdirection79.1%This article: 79.1%Alina Kim: 7.1%MS NOW: 14.2%Biased Writer Voice79.1%This article: 64.0%Alina Kim: 2.5%MS NOW: 2.1%Indoctrination64.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 3.1%MS NOW: 5.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 0.0%MS NOW: 0.6%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alina Kim: 1.0%MS NOW: 0.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

86 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker64%attributed speech31writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageJohn Brennan • 55 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverage
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John Brennan

100%flagged-word coverage
55 attributed words100% of attributed speech42% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Indoctrination+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%John Brennan: 100.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection+58.1 ptsWriter: 41.9%John Brennan: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+58.1 ptsWriter: 41.9%John Brennan: 100.0%100.0%

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

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Analysis

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