cherrypicking

• In the article, Gawande repeatedly talks about "blunting financial incentives" for bad medicine or patient cherrypicking. —  Concurring Opinions
• No player in major league history has played more games in their first eight seasons than Ichiro's 1280 from 2001-08, and while that is sort of cherrypicking (he played in the 162-game era and went straight from Japan to the major leagues as a polished player rather than spending partial seasons in the bigs because he was still honing his skills in the minors like many Americans) it is still significant. —  FanHouse
• One could also accuse messrs Dawkins and Hitchens of cherrypicking events and religious passages to make their atheistic points, but that doesn't invalidate their points of view. —  New Humanist Blog
• Let's see here … cherrypicking, out-of-context quoting, poorly based assumptions (judging a blog by the cover), general misunderstanding of my writing, refusal to read the comments … shall I go on? —  Planet Atheism
• Al, I'm sorry, but this sounds like the biggest piece of cherrypicking I've seen on Poynter in quite some time. —  Poynter Online

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