Forbes⁠65%

Max Miller Attributes Drug Use Allegations To Testosterone Replacement Therapy ⁠44%

By Antonio Pequeño IV⁠74%

8/4/2026, 5:12:14 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Self-Serving Bias, Framing Effect, and Confirmation Bias, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 44.7% saturation with 92 hits. Analysis detected 592 faulty-reasoning hits from 206 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 39.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠44% (16,676 of 29,350 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 56.80% of the article peer group.

Rep. 
Max Miller, R-Ohio, addressed his alleged use of illegal drugs in an interview with CNN on Tuesday, telling anchor Jake Tapper amid his alleged domestic abuse controversy that reports about him using needles were linked to his use of testosterone replacement therapy. 
Tapper asked Miller about the last time he used illegal drugs, to which Miller said, “I don’t know, several years ago. 
I mean I don’t use illegal drugs.” 
“This is what they’re doing okay? 
This whole needles thing? 
This is testosterone replacement therapy,” Miller told Tapper, referring to a batch of files he shared Sunday that seemingly included a recorded conversation between him and his then-wife, Emily Moreno, who told him in 2024 she believed he had a drug problem and that she found needles near his bed. 
“People are painting this as something that it’s not,” Miller said, pivoting to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s recent decision to allow members of the military to take voluntary testosterone replacement therapy. 
Hegseth said his ex-wife and her father, Sen. 
Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, “are continuing to put this stuff out there when I’m very open, when TRT’s legal.” 
Miller has denied the allegations against him. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 24.3%Antonio Pequeño IV: 2.3%Forbes: 2.8%Confirmation Bias24.3%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 2.6%Forbes: 0.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 5.8%Forbes: 2.7%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.7%Forbes: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.3%Forbes: 2.0%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 29.1%Antonio Pequeño IV: 9.8%Forbes: 4.9%Framing Effect29.1%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.4%Forbes: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 2.3%Forbes: 3.6%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.9%Forbes: 1.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 15.5%Antonio Pequeño IV: 22.0%Forbes: 4.5%Negativity Bias15.5%This article: 39.3%Antonio Pequeño IV: 2.7%Forbes: 0.8%Self-Serving Bias39.3%This article: 20.4%Antonio Pequeño IV: 1.1%Forbes: 0.5%Fundamental Attribution Error20.4%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.3%Forbes: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.3%Forbes: 0.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.2%Forbes: 3.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.3%Forbes: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 8.7%Antonio Pequeño IV: 1.8%Forbes: 1.3%Recency Bias8.7%This article: 3.4%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.6%Forbes: 0.3%Primacy Effect3.4%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 8.7%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.1%Ad Hominem8.7%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.2%Forbes: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 5.2%Forbes: 3.9%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.3%Forbes: 1.4%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 2.6%Forbes: 4.9%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 15.5%Antonio Pequeño IV: 1.3%Forbes: 0.1%Red Herring15.5%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 1.5%Forbes: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 2.8%Forbes: 3.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.5%Forbes: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.5%Forbes: 2.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 8.7%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.0%Tu Quoque8.7%This article: 24.3%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.3%Forbes: 0.3%Burden of Proof24.3%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.4%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 1.9%Forbes: 1.7%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 44.7%Antonio Pequeño IV: 1.9%Forbes: 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)44.7%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.5%Forbes: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 1.1%Forbes: 0.9%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 24.3%Antonio Pequeño IV: 2.0%Forbes: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection24.3%This article: 20.4%Antonio Pequeño IV: 8.1%Forbes: 4.4%Biased Writer Voice20.4%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 2.1%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 2.0%Forbes: 0.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.0%Forbes: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Antonio Pequeño IV: 0.7%Forbes: 4.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

206 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers81%attributed speech39writer words
Selected voice

Max Miller

93%flagged-word coverage
141 attributed words84% of attributed speech44% writer coverage
0%20.0%40.0%Quote-first Misdirection+35.5 ptsWriter: 0.0%Max Miller: 35.5%35.5%Biased Writer Voice+29.8 ptsWriter: 0.0%Max Miller: 29.8%29.8%

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

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Analysis

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