Author summary
34%17 analyzed articles/videos8,147 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Darren Orf results contain 46 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Negativity Bias, and Confirmation Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 8% saturation with 3,149 hits. Analysis detected 32,341 faulty-reasoning hits from 39,192 analyzed words across 17 articles, generating a BS Score of 1.8% and a BS Rank of 23% (4,871 of 6,316 authors). This Darren Orf is better (less manipulative) than 77.10% of the peer group.
Darren Orf
Author ranking list
PercentileAuthorBS Score
0%Vivek Chibber1%
0%Sneha Dey1%
0%Ideastream Public Media1%
0%Megan Fan Munce1%
1%Los Angeles Times staff1%
23%Darren Orf (selected)2%
100%Greg Rosenstein38%
100%Siham Shamalakh43%
100%Greg Miller54%
100%Kevin Kniestedt60%
100%Bill Radke60%
Author details
Total words: 39,192
Article count: 17
Publications

Ranking context

Position among analyzed authors

23% percentile
025507510022.9% percentile
1.8% BS Score17 analyzed articles39.2K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

AuthorSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Author 4.0%4.0%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Author 6.2%6.2%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Author 3.7%3.7%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Author 0.1%0.1%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Author 4.3%4.3%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Author 2.1%2.1%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Author 4.5%4.5%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Author 7.7%7.7%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Author 0.4%0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity BiasSitewide 3.1%Author 0.0%0.0%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%10%10%20%20%30%30%40%40%50%50%Framing Effect: Author 4.0%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Author 6.2%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Author 3.7%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Author 7.7%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Author 4.3%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Author 4.5%, sitewide 8.1%Biased Writer Voice: Author 8.0%, sitewide 5.3%Confirmation Bias: Author 4.5%, sitewide 7.5%In-Group Bias: Author 0.1%, sitewide 6.9%Halo Effect: Author 2.1%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Author 3.5%, sitewide 6.0%Anecdotal: Author 3.3%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Author 2.7%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Author 1.7%, sitewide 4.0%Post Hoc (False Cause): Author 3.7%, sitewide 3.3%Self-Serving Bias: Author 0.4%, sitewide 3.7%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Author 0.0%, sitewide 3.1%Fundamental Attribution Error: Author 0.2%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Author 1.2%, sitewide 2.7%Hindsight Bias: Author 2.7%, sitewide 1.4%Loss Aversion: Author 0.1%, sitewide 2.5%Unattributed Quote: Author 2.4%, sitewide 1.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Author 2.4%, sitewide 0.8%Bandwagon: Author 0.2%, sitewide 2.2%Framing EffectSitewide rateAuthor rate

Analyzed articles and videos

20th-Century Shipwrecks Are Poisoning Our Oceans—But Underwater Microbes Are Fighting Back54%
Popular Mechanics33%By Darren Orf34%7/21/2026, 6:00:03 PM
Geologists May Have Found One of the World’s Greatest Treasures. Some Say It’s Too Dangerous to Dig Up.95%
Popular Mechanics33%By Darren Orf34%7/17/2026, 6:28:57 PM
Three Ships Sank in a Freak Tsunami 800 Years Ago. They Just Gave Up the ‘Artifact of the Decade.’27%
Popular Mechanics33%By Darren Orf34%7/17/2026, 12:30:00 PM
Operation Popeye: How the U.S. Military Tried to Weaponize Weather51%
Popular Mechanics33%By Darren Orf34%7/16/2026, 6:00:00 PM
Experts Misjudged a Tropical Storm. By the Time They Saw the Impending Doom, It Was Too Late.48%
Popular Mechanics33%By Darren Orf34%7/16/2026, 1:00:00 PM
Scientists Just Solved a 100-Year-Old Evolutionary Mystery26%
Popular Mechanics33%By Darren Orf34%7/15/2026, 1:30:00 PM
America’s Forgotten Tornado Apocalypse Left 500 Dead. Scientists Say It Could Happen Again.21%
Popular Mechanics33%By Darren Orf34%7/15/2026, 12:30:00 PM
Residents Were Visiting Their Local Beach. They Discovered Mysterious Orbs that Fell From Space.23%
Popular Mechanics33%By Darren Orf34%7/14/2026, 5:00:00 PM
A Fire in an Alpine Tunnel Killed 39 People—and Ignited a Fiery Debate21%
Popular Mechanics33%By Darren Orf34%7/14/2026, 12:00:04 PM
Scientists Just Figured Out How Much Time Is Left for Life on Earth4%
Popular Mechanics33%By Darren Orf34%7/13/2026, 1:00:00 PM