[Seenso]

>> Ultimately, Seattle’s experience shows the futility of travel bans

> Is there a word or phrase for the act of poorly implementing an idea, then using the failed result as a way to discredit the idea? It's like a straw man argument but done in practice rather than in argument.

I don't know, so I'm going to coin a term for it: dishonest experiment.

[TeMPOraL]

It's not the experiment that was dishonest, though - it's drawing conclusions from it as if it was conducted correctly that's dishonest.

[gentleman11]

“Bad faith” research might be more appropriate, since it sort of acknowledges bias

[peteradio]

I like both.