Topic summary
24%11 analyzed articles/videos12,125 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Environmental Remediation results contain 47 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Confirmation Bias, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 6.6% saturation with 3,502 hits. Analysis detected 19,977 faulty-reasoning hits from 53,026 analyzed words across 11 articles, generating a BS Score of 0.8% and a BS Rank of 2% (23,672 of 24,062 topics). This Environmental Remediation is better (less manipulative) than 98.40% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed topics

2% percentile
02550751001.6% percentile
0.8% BS Score11 analyzed articles53K analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

TopicSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Topic 2.5%2.5%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Topic 1.8%1.8%Negativity BiasSitewide 19.2%Topic 6.6%6.6%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Topic 3.0%3.0%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Topic 1.6%1.6%In-Group BiasSitewide 6.9%Topic 0.0%0.0%Hasty GeneralizationSitewide 8.1%Topic 1.6%1.6%Halo EffectSitewide 6.7%Topic 0.3%0.3%Biased Writer VoiceSitewide 5.3%Topic 0.4%0.4%Confirmation BiasSitewide 7.5%Topic 2.7%2.7%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%10%10%20%20%30%30%40%40%50%50%Framing Effect: Topic 2.5%, sitewide 26.9%Negativity Bias: Topic 6.6%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Topic 1.8%, sitewide 15.9%Appeal to Authority: Topic 3.0%, sitewide 11.1%Availability Heuristic: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 9.1%Hasty Generalization: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 8.1%Confirmation Bias: Topic 2.7%, sitewide 7.5%In-Group Bias: Topic 0.0%, sitewide 6.9%Halo Effect: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 6.7%Optimism Bias: Topic 1.5%, sitewide 6.0%Biased Writer Voice: Topic 0.4%, sitewide 5.3%Anecdotal: Topic 2.1%, sitewide 5.2%Overconfidence Bias: Topic 0.5%, sitewide 4.6%Anchoring Bias: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 4.0%Self-Serving Bias: Topic 1.6%, sitewide 3.7%Post Hoc (False Cause): Topic 0.9%, sitewide 3.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Topic 0.0%, sitewide 3.1%Fundamental Attribution Error: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 2.7%Recency Bias: Topic 0.8%, sitewide 2.7%Loss Aversion: Topic 0.3%, sitewide 2.5%Bandwagon: Topic 0.1%, sitewide 2.2%Status Quo Bias: Topic 0.7%, sitewide 2.2%Ad Hominem: Topic 0.2%, sitewide 2.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias: Topic 0.6%, sitewide 2.0%Framing EffectSitewide rateTopic rate

Analyzed articles and videos

Lead contamination is still a problem in Omaha. Why is the city cleaning up some yards and not others?14%
Flatwater Free Press12%By Chris Bowling23%8/5/2026, 3:00:00 AM
Lead Contamination Is Still a Problem in Omaha. Why Is the City Cleaning Up Some Yards and Not Others?23%
ProPublica51%By Chris Bowling23%8/5/2026, 2:00:00 AM
As new Berkeley park emerges, those who fought for it for decades are ‘ecstatic’3%
Berkeleyside44%By Daniel Ekonde27%8/4/2026, 11:29:43 AM
The EPA heralds its Omaha cleanup as a success. But we found many yards still have toxic levels of lead.20%
Flatwater Free Press12%By Chris Bowling23%8/4/2026, 3:00:00 AM
The EPA doesn’t typically retest homes in the country’s largest residential lead Superfund site. So we did.20%
Flatwater Free Press12%By Cassandra Garibay24% ProPublica40%8/4/2026, 3:00:00 AM
The EPA Doesn’t Typically Retest Homes in the Country’s Largest Residential Lead Superfund Site. So We Did.8%
ProPublica51%By Cassandra Garibay24%8/4/2026, 2:05:00 AM
Framing…12%Negativ…7%Self-Se…11%
11th Circuit sends city’s mercury pollution suit back to federal court9%
Courthouse News Service26%By Kayla Goggin10%8/3/2026, 4:05:04 PM
This Texas coal mine will soon be home to a 1.2GW solar farm39%
Grist45%By Maria Gallucci18%8/2/2026, 6:00:00 AM
Toxic waste, past and present, haunts Niagara Falls couple23%
Investigative Post47%By Geoff Kelly29%7/31/2026, 3:00:32 AM
Optimis…4%Halo Ef…5%
Detroit Evening Report: Department of Construction and Demolition gives update on contaminated dirt removal2%
WDET 101.9 FM24%By Sascha Raiyn10%7/21/2026, 11:58:32 AM