| Matthew S. McGlone, Ph. D., Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, studied the effect of contextomy on popular opinion. |
| Contextomy is employed in contemporary mass media to promote products, defame public figures and misappropriate rhetoric. |
| A subtle variation on the straw-man argument goes by the tongue-twisting name of contextomy. |
| In these cases of contextomy, a view to the original context often renders the quotation utterly meaningless, and even counterproductive. |
| As a literary offense, contextomy ranges from simple and perhaps naive disingenuousness to malicious and contemptible dishonesty. |
| The Daily Caller writer introduced both the contextomy fallacy and provided a textbook example of confirmation bias fallacy in his declaration. |
