Vancouver man held in Clark County Jail died by suicide, medical examiner rules ⁠17%

By Kimberly Cortez⁠53%

8/5/2026, 4:55:42 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Framing Effect, and Confirmation Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 64.8% saturation with 46 hits. Analysis detected 155 faulty-reasoning hits from 71 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 25% and a BS Rank of ⁠17% (25,566 of 30,584 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 83.60% of the article peer group.

A Vancouver man being held in the Clark County Jail who was found unresponsive in his cell July 23 died by complications of hanging, according to the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office. 
The medical examiner’s office ruled the death of 41-year-old Curran Ellis Fine a suicide. 
Fine was being held on charges of arson, harassment and animal cruelty. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 19.7%Kimberly Cortez: 2.0%The Columbian: 3.5%Confirmation Bias19.7%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 16.9%Kimberly Cortez: 6.2%The Columbian: 3.6%Availability Heuristic16.9%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 3.5%The Columbian: 0.5%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.8%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 38.0%Kimberly Cortez: 3.8%The Columbian: 7.0%Framing Effect38.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.8%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.9%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 2.6%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 12.1%The Columbian: 2.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 16.9%Kimberly Cortez: 8.0%The Columbian: 9.0%Negativity Bias16.9%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.9%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 1.5%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.6%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.6%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 1.4%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 4.2%The Columbian: 1.6%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 64.8%Kimberly Cortez: 6.5%The Columbian: 3.6%Appeal to Authority64.8%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 1.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 10.5%The Columbian: 3.9%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 4.5%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 16.9%Kimberly Cortez: 4.5%The Columbian: 2.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)16.9%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.3%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 3.5%The Columbian: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 3.5%The Columbian: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 2.1%The Columbian: 1.8%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 3.9%The Columbian: 0.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.5%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 2.4%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 1.1%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 45.1%Kimberly Cortez: 18.5%The Columbian: 6.5%Biased Writer Voice45.1%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 1.8%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kimberly Cortez: 0.0%The Columbian: 0.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

71 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker65%attributed speech25writer words
100%flagged-word coverage
46 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%35.0%70.0%Biased Writer Voice+69.6 ptsWriter: 0.0%Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office: 69.6%69.6%

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

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Analysis

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