Speaker summary
⁠41%7 analyzed articles/videos117.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These John Ratcliffe results contain 4 faulty reasoning types, including Overconfidence Bias, Circular Reasoning, and Self-Serving Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 42.7% saturation with 63.034 hits. Analysis detected 179.034 faulty-reasoning hits from 117.333 analyzed words across 7 articles, generating a BS Score of 41.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠59% (11,622 of 28,364 speakers). This John Ratcliffe is worse (more manipulative) than 59.00% of the peer group.
John Ratcliffe

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

59% percentile
025507510059.0% percentile
41.1% BS Score7 analyzed videos117.3 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–75%
0.0%20%40%60%Circular ReasoningSitewide 0.1%Speaker 51.4%51.4%Self-Serving BiasSitewide 3.7%Speaker 51.4%51.4%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 42.7%42.7%Overconfidence BiasSitewide 4.6%Speaker 18.8%18.8%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%Circular Reasoning: Speaker 51.4%, sitewide 0.1%Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 51.4%, sitewide 3.7%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 42.7%, sitewide 11.1%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 18.8%, sitewide 4.6%Circular ReasoningSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos

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Mediaite⁠70%By David Gilmour⁠61%7/17/2026, 12:48:16 PM
Declassified documents undercut Trump’s ‘rigged’ election claim⁠47%
MS NOW⁠95%By Laura Barrón-López⁠79%7/17/2026, 5:03:20 AM
Fact-checking Trump’s address: What he said about China and 2020 election, what documents show⁠30%
PolitiFact⁠6%By Louis Jacobson⁠16%7/16/2026, 10:07:05 PM
Fact-checking Trump's address: What he said about China and 2020 election, what documents show⁠32%
PolitiFact⁠6%By Louis Jacobson⁠16% Amy Sherman⁠10%7/16/2026, 12:00:00 AM
Trump plans primetime speech on voting machines and foreign influence in elections⁠19%
MS NOW⁠95%By Vaughn Hillyard⁠26%7/14/2026, 10:15:33 PM
'A Rich Harvest of Bitter Fruit' Review: Stephen Long on the CIA's First Failed Coup⁠14%
Foreign Policy⁠32%By Casey Michel⁠0%7/10/2026, 6:45:27 PM