The phrase "distort evidence" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when referring to someone manipulating evidence to support a certain belief or point of view. For example, "The politician attempted to distort evidence to suggest his opponent had committed a crime."
When even a single person distorts evidence unbeknownst to their coauthors, the reputation of honest, unsuspecting scientists is at stake.
In making the request, the government added accusations of bribery and distorting evidence against the former official, Byeon Yang-ho.
They say that Picard has distorted evidence and twisted their successful and unwitting investments with Madoff into something sinister.
The Mets are fighting the trustee, Irving H. Picard, in federal court and are accusing him of distorting evidence against them.
The two-month trial in United States District Court ended as it began, with Mr. Traficant veering into vulgarity and drawing reprimands from Judge Lesley Wells for misrepresenting the law and distorting evidence.
Ministers misled parliament over the need to build a new fleet of nuclear power stations, distorting evidence and presenting to MPs a false summary of the analysis they had commissioned, a group of MPs and experts alleged in a report published on Tuesday.
The alcohol industry has been accused of distorting evidence in an attempt to influence the Scottish government over its minimum pricing policy.
The way Green twisted the meaning of this quote into its opposite is a vivid illustration of how the company distorts evidence to attack its adversaries.
But you can get on to the market without ever comparing your drug against the best currently available treatment, and then you can bamboozle doctors and patients into using it by distorting the clinical evidence with all the tricks I describe, and then by giving a biased picture of that distorted evidence to doctors and patients through your marketing activity.
