In his Tuesday op-ed in the Daily Cal, Choudhry argued that his behavior was never sexual and selectively cited from an email Sorrell sent him in 2015 in which she said, "I know you don't mean anything by it, other than, perhaps, a warm and friendly greeting".
Most introductory reviews on the situation in China are based on individual author points of view, with a few selectively cited references and related narrative conclusions.
A question: You stated that "Paul Krugman has the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults".
In a statement, a spokeswoman for Washington University said that Mr. Dane had misrepresented the panel's full report by selectively citing from it in his letter, which he sent to The Times and other publications.
I'd like a couple of examples, please, with firm data to back up your charge -- especially since Mr. Krugman regularly exposes the current administration's "shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers" rather convincingly, to my eyes.
I offered him only three examples of "shaping, slicing and selectively citing" (for some reason, he's left one out of his rebuttal) because I was at home when he began bombarding me with outraged demands for retraction and apology; I'd completed my tenure as public editor the preceding week, and did not have any files with me.
In Daniel Okrent's parting shot as public editor of The New York Times, he levied a harsh charge against me: he said that I have "a disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults".
For instance, it charges Administration officials with changing social science criteria to make "abstinence-only" sex education programs appear more effective, selectively citing data to make missile defense systems seem closer to reality, and withholding comments from Fish and Wildlife Service biologists who were critical of proposed changes to wetlands protection rules.
Artificially engineering rulings – as our Supreme Court justices are doing when they selectively cite foreign court opinions – undermines the predictability, consistency, and uniformity of justice.
She does just what she has made her name criticizing in Merchants of Doubt, knowingly playing fast and loose with the evidence, and selectively citing scientific experts, to support her view of "the facts" in a way that clouds public understanding of scientific evidence in order to advance a clear political agenda.
Why do they selectively cite some foreign court decisions such as those from the European Union, the International Court, England, Jamaica, or even the "bastion of humanity" – Zimbabwe – where an authoritarian government oppresses political challengers, civil rights activists, and jails representatives of the media?
