Sophistry

You can adduce studies and reports all you like, but their sophistry will always win out.

I think that things have become very murky these days, lots of misunderstanding, miscues, a lot of what the ancients would have called sophistry.

Such conduct is at any rate not sophistical, if Aristotle be right in describing sophistry as the art of making money.

And so he reasoned until the first generous impulse to proclaim the truth and relinquish his titles and his estates to their rightful owner was forgotten beneath the mass of sophistries which self-interest had advanced.