Speaker summary
⁠60%20 analyzed articles/videos399.333 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Department of Energy results contain 12 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Availability Heuristic, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 27.4% saturation with 200 hits. Analysis detected 643 faulty-reasoning hits from 399.333 analyzed words across 20 articles, generating a BS Score of 12.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠20% (35,720 of 44,212 speakers). This Department of Energy is better (less manipulative) than 80.80% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

19% percentile
025507510019.2% percentile
12.8% BS Score20 analyzed videos399.3 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–100%
0.0%20%40%60%80%100%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Speaker 73.8%73.8%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 2.6%2.6%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 27.4%27.4%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Speaker 3.4%3.4%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 4.4%4.4%Unattributed QuoteSitewide 1.1%Speaker 7.1%7.1%Optimism BiasSitewide 6.0%Speaker 11.1%11.1%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Speaker 4.7%4.7%Slippery SlopeSitewide 1.7%Speaker 3.7%3.7%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 7.1%7.1%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%20%20%40%40%60%60%80%80%100%100%Confirmation Bias: Speaker 73.8%, sitewide 7.5%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 27.4%, sitewide 11.1%Framing Effect: Speaker 2.6%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Speaker 3.4%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 4.4%, sitewide 15.9%Optimism Bias: Speaker 11.1%, sitewide 6.0%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 7.1%, sitewide 9.1%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 7.1%, sitewide 1.1%Halo Effect: Speaker 4.7%, sitewide 6.7%Overconfidence Bias: Speaker 3.7%, sitewide 4.6%Self-Serving Bias: Speaker 4.4%, sitewide 3.7%Slippery Slope: Speaker 3.7%, sitewide 1.7%Confirmation BiasSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos

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DOE launches supercomputing effort to recycle 95,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel⁠23%
Interesting Engineering⁠73%By Neetika Walter⁠70%8/5/2026, 4:45:20 PM
Nevada senators want to ensure Yucca Mountain nuclear repository ‘remains dead’⁠23%
Las Vegas Review-Journal⁠32%By Ricardo Torres-Cortez⁠57%8/4/2026, 4:00:22 AM
The Nuclear Campus Pitch Came With a Catch: Oklahoma Could Store Spent Fuel From Around the Nation⁠22%
Oklahoma Watch⁠15%By Associated Press⁠74%8/3/2026, 4:00:00 AM
New Mexico Wrote Clean Energy Success Story in Just 5 Years⁠59%
WhoWhatWhy⁠87%By Whowhatwhy Editors⁠66%8/3/2026, 3:30:18 AM
Do solar plants require backup from fossil fuels?⁠16%
The Colorado Sun⁠27%By Sue Bin Park⁠20% Skeptical Science⁠20%8/3/2026, 3:10:00 AM
Where the desert meets the sea, a pipeline threatens the Gulf of California⁠19%
Prism⁠52%By Rachel Herring⁠27% Arantza Caudillo-Álvarez⁠27%7/29/2026, 9:08:37 AM
Federal officials admit to withholding grants from states just because they didn’t vote for Trump⁠65%
The Independent⁠82%By Josh Marcus⁠75%7/24/2026, 4:55:23 PM
Trump administration concedes that it canceled research grants in blue states⁠30%
NBC News⁠57%By Gary Grumbach⁠36% Kyla Guilfoil⁠28%7/24/2026, 3:12:40 PM
Trump Team Admits He’s Been Defunding States That Didn’t Vote for Him⁠82%
The New Republic⁠74%By Hafiz Rashid⁠85%7/24/2026, 1:13:14 PM
As Iran war escalates, U.S. is fighting from a weakened position⁠69%
Salon⁠85%By Russell Payne⁠77%7/23/2026, 3:30:12 AM
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