Procrustean Science

A new term for my vocabulary: Procrustean. It applies so well to sciences which cherry pick data, say only certain trees in order to form up the data they wish to exist. I stumbled onto the definition here, and in part it says,

” It’s a rare phrase, deriving from the legend of Procrustes, who was an inn-keeper that liked his guests to fit their beds exactly. If the guests were too short, he would stretch them on a rack, and if they were too long, he would chop off their feet.

In Procrustean science, the bed represents the theory, and the guests represent the facts and observations constituting the evidence. If the facts do not fit, then they are simply altered to make them fit the theory.”

It also has an alternate spelling: manbearpig.