Watch Live: Lindsay Clancy trial testimony and updates, Day 7 ⁠17%

By Colleen Cronin⁠12%

8/5/2026, 5:35:01 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Negativity Bias, and Framing Effect, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 57.6% saturation with 53 hits. Analysis detected 282 faulty-reasoning hits from 92 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 25% and a BS Rank of ⁠17% (25,287 of 30,213 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 83.70% of the article peer group.

Watch Live from Plymouth Superior Court as testimony continues in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury mom accused of killing her 3 children. 
Clancy is accused of murdering, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, eight months, in January 2023. 
Her attorney isn’t disputing that she did the killings but has instead argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and can’t be held criminally responsible for the deaths. 
Follow along below for updates as the Commonwealth continues to layout their case: 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 57.6%Colleen Cronin: 2.8%bostonherald: 2.7%Confirmation Bias57.6%This article: 17.4%Colleen Cronin: 0.2%bostonherald: 0.6%Anchoring Bias17.4%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 1.4%bostonherald: 3.3%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 17.4%Colleen Cronin: 1.0%bostonherald: 1.6%Representativeness Heuristic17.4%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.5%bostonherald: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 42.4%Colleen Cronin: 1.8%bostonherald: 5.7%Framing Effect42.4%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.1%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 14.1%Colleen Cronin: 0.5%bostonherald: 1.1%Status Quo Bias14.1%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.4%bostonherald: 2.7%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.3%bostonherald: 0.9%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 43.5%Colleen Cronin: 4.9%bostonherald: 5.5%Negativity Bias43.5%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.8%bostonherald: 2.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.2%bostonherald: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.9%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.2%bostonherald: 1.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.5%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 4.2%bostonherald: 1.5%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 14.1%Colleen Cronin: 0.4%bostonherald: 2.0%Recency Bias14.1%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.2%bostonherald: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.4%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 1.1%bostonherald: 2.9%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.6%bostonherald: 1.3%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.7%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.3%bostonherald: 3.0%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 1.0%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 2.1%bostonherald: 6.5%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 17.4%Colleen Cronin: 0.1%bostonherald: 1.0%Begging the Question17.4%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.6%bostonherald: 1.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.2%bostonherald: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.4%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 1.9%bostonherald: 0.9%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.7%bostonherald: 0.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.2%bostonherald: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.3%bostonherald: 1.0%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 10.9%Colleen Cronin: 1.0%bostonherald: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection10.9%This article: 57.6%Colleen Cronin: 1.2%bostonherald: 2.7%Biased Writer Voice57.6%This article: 14.1%Colleen Cronin: 0.6%bostonherald: 0.6%Indoctrination14.1%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.6%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colleen Cronin: 0.0%bostonherald: 0.1%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

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