This is part of a phenomenon known as motivated reasoning, where instead of evidence being evaluated critically, it is deliberately interpreted in such a way as to reaffirm a pre-existing belief, demanding impossibly stringent examination of unwelcome evidence while accepting uncritically even the flimsiest information that suits one's needs.
Relationships to cancer are deliberately interpreted broadly, encompassing: prevention, treatment, diagnosis, and related regulatory frameworks.
"Some loose ends will be left deliberately open for the readers to interpret.
However in 2013, referees were encouraged to interpret the rules that if a fighter is deliberately intending to provoke an illegal soccer kick and one was used, then the referee could decide that it was a legal move.
It is difficult to interpret the variations in administration of a drug to deliberately end life owing to the small numbers concerned (Table 2).
Coke's Commentary on Littleton has been interpreted as deliberately obtuse, with his aim being to write what Cromartie called "a sort of anti-textbook, a work whose very form denied that legal knowledge could be organised.
… You can interpret many of the outcomes of competitive battles — such as Nike versus Reebok in the period between 1990 and 2005 — as the triumph of one company that had deliberately applied a repeatable model over a competitor that had not".
One day he happened to clean his false teeth in what the Matabele considered a sacred spring and accidentally dropped some eau de Cologne into it; the angry locals interpreted this as him deliberately poisoning the spring.
Umpires seem to have interpreted the message from baseball to say that pitches thrown deliberately at the head should cause automatic ejection of the pitcher and possibly the manager.
Finally and not surprising, the same man who was articulate and straightforward in interpreting the Supreme Court's decision after the contentious 2013 election was deliberately ponderous and obfuscatory in his interpretation of the same court's decision regarding the teachers' salary!
"It is a deliberately dynamic concept, and the directorate the rules come from says it should be interpreted dynamically," says Pete Johnson, chief executive of ATVOD.
