Special pleading
Special pleading is an informal fallacy wherein a person claims an exception to a general or universal principle, but the exception is unjustified.Special pleading also often resembles the "appeal to" logical fallacies.Special pleading subverts a presumption of existential import.[citation needed][further explanation needed] A difficult case is when a possible criticism is made relatively immune to investigation.This immunity may take the forms of: This variation occurs when the interpretation of the relevant statistic is "massaged" by looking for ways to reclassify or requantify data from one portion of results, but not applying the same scrutiny to other categories.