It's not that bad faith. When their initial hypothesis is wrong, instead of considering the null hypothesis (which is the case of accepting you're wrong), you c

It's not that bad faith. When their initial hypothesis is wrong, instead of considering the null hypothesis (which is the case of accepting you're wrong), you create new conclusions from the data to say why you're still correct. It's the same thing as you said, but it's not done with malintent but done with the just wanting to prove yourself right.