Cherry-picking
Etymology
The metaphor draws on the harvester who takes only the ripe, choice cherries and leaves the rest — a figure for selective choosing that emerged in 20th-century American English. As a name for a reasoning error it stresses that each cited fact may be accurate while the selection is dishonest.
noun · /CHAIR-ee PIK-ing/
Presenting only the evidence that supports your case while ignoring the data that contradicts it.
What it names
The selective use of facts that produces a technically true but deeply misleading picture.
Example
Quoting the one study that agrees with you while burying a dozen that don’t is cherry-picking.
Related idea
Cherry-picking omits inconvenient evidence; the Texas sharpshooter fallacy invents a pattern after the fact, and survivorship bias is the passive version, where the losing cases have already vanished from view.