After Trump pauses war, Iranians fly flags of victory, not surrender ⁠93%

By Steve Hendrix⁠0%

4/9/2026, 9:00:09 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including False Dilemma, Availability Heuristic, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 59.5% saturation with 47 hits. Analysis detected 320 faulty-reasoning hits from 79 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 88.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠93% (1,491 of 21,179 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 93.00% of the article peer group.

LONDON — Shortly after President Donald Trump threatened to erase the “whole civilization” of Iran, all 6,000 years of it, the crowds came out into the streets of Tehran waving flags — and not white ones. 
They bore the green, white and red banners of the still-standing Islamic Republic. 
Some set fire to the star-spangled ones of the superpower that, according to state media, they had just “humiliated.” 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 24.1%Steve Hendrix: 1.0%The Washington Post: 3.8%Confirmation Bias24.1%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 1.4%The Washington Post: 1.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 45.6%Steve Hendrix: 11.3%The Washington Post: 4.9%Availability Heuristic45.6%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 1.5%The Washington Post: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 59.5%Steve Hendrix: 30.4%The Washington Post: 21.5%Framing Effect59.5%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.4%The Washington Post: 0.8%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 16.5%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.9%Status Quo Bias16.5%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 7.0%The Washington Post: 3.6%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 7.5%The Washington Post: 3.6%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 38.0%Steve Hendrix: 29.0%The Washington Post: 18.5%Negativity Bias38.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 3.0%The Washington Post: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.9%The Washington Post: 0.9%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 16.5%Steve Hendrix: 1.5%The Washington Post: 2.2%In-Group Bias16.5%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 3.9%The Washington Post: 0.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 1.3%The Washington Post: 2.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.9%The Washington Post: 0.4%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 6.7%The Washington Post: 2.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.7%The Washington Post: 1.0%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 1.5%The Washington Post: 0.9%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.6%The Washington Post: 5.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 59.5%Steve Hendrix: 3.4%The Washington Post: 1.5%False Dilemma59.5%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.4%The Washington Post: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 4.3%The Washington Post: 5.9%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.5%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 24.1%Steve Hendrix: 12.2%The Washington Post: 6.3%Appeal to Emotion24.1%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.7%The Washington Post: 1.0%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 45.6%Steve Hendrix: 7.3%The Washington Post: 4.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)45.6%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.7%The Washington Post: 0.6%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.9%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 13.9%Steve Hendrix: 0.8%The Washington Post: 2.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)13.9%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 24.1%Steve Hendrix: 1.5%The Washington Post: 4.8%Unattributed Quote24.1%This article: 24.1%Steve Hendrix: 2.2%The Washington Post: 2.5%Quote-first Misdirection24.1%This article: 13.9%Steve Hendrix: 25.0%The Washington Post: 15.2%Biased Writer Voice13.9%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.8%The Washington Post: 2.0%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 6.9%The Washington Post: 3.6%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Steve Hendrix: 0.0%The Washington Post: 1.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

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