I think you might be jumping to conclusions. The usage of disingenuous in debates also means dishonest (see my above comment). What I communicated was that disi

I think you might be jumping to conclusions. The usage of disingenuous in debates also means dishonest (see my above comment). What I communicated was that disingenuous usage in a debate is without controversy. No one reacts by flagging/reporting a study or paper for moderation because I said your position does not honestly represent facts or data. What happens instead is positions are restated in a way that better speaks to and directly addresses the facts or data to better prove their point, or they can’t directly address those facts and the debate more or less ends there quite efficiently. Does that make sense? A google search result shows: “The Economics of the Financial Crisis: Lessons and New Threats Marco Annunziata · 2011 · Business & Economics Yet this line of argument is in many ways simplistic, misleading and disingenuous. Economics is an imperfect science, and some of its weaknesses have been shown in an unflatteringly harsh ...” “On the Economics of Say and Keynes' Interpretation of Say's Law - Jstor by PO Jonsson · 1995 · Cited by 37 · Related articles portrayal of how Ricardian economics differed from his own General Theory was best disingenuous and at worst fraudulent. Moreover, because ...” “A Synthesis of Law and Economics - SMU Scholar by J Cirace · 2016 · Cited by 20 · Related articles and transfers, economists often make disingenuous statements to the effect that a " trade-off" between distribution and efficiency exists. 38 Such ...” “Institutional Economics: Veblen, Commons, and Mitchell ... Joseph Dorfman · 1963 · Economics The roots of his institutional economics were planted in the disorderly ... In a homespun and often disingenuous way, he strove with dogged ...” “A/moral Economics: Classical Political Economy and Cultural ... Claudia C. Klaver · 2003 · Business & Economics Economics ... "laws of the inductive philosophy" to the "abstract questions of political economy" is disingenuous given the long history of debate ...” I had no trouble finding these somewhat general but critical examples; the rhetoric is fairly common. With some better targeted google-fu I can probably find some great examples in heated scientific debates like Einstein vs Bohr and other great controversial debates.