An individual who is only your friend to use you for their own personal gain and is magically not around when you actually need a friend. Also known as selfish and a bitch.
Wow, you knowJessica, we should have seen right through Rebecca, she is such a self-serving friend; she only wanted to be friends with us so she could pass bio lab.
-So Garbencius prase siust darbus?
-Ne bet as nusiunciau nes kzn vistiek neturim gi pazymiu ir cia tik 6sav liko mokytis
-oho Zilvi you are self servingegotisticalfuckward
A logical fallacy that you don't just accidentally commit, but actively cultivate and deploy because its flawed conclusion directly benefits you, validates your identity, or protects your ego. It's reasoning as a personal bodyguard, hired to defend your pre-existing beliefs or interests, no matter how intellectually dishonest its methods. You'll cling to a post hoc ergo propter hoc if it makes your lucky socks seem genius, or embrace a no true Scotsman to dismiss critics of your in-group.
Example: "His go-to self-serving fallacy was false equivalence. 'Sure, I exaggerated my resume, but everyone massages the truth! It's just like a politician using spin!' He'd built a flawed moral equation where his deception was just a harmless industry standard, neatly letting himself off the hook."
The deliberate interpretation, selection, or even manipulation of scientific information to support a pre-determined personal, political, or financial goal. This ranges from cherry-picking studies that favor your product to funding research designed to produce friendly results. It's not just bias; it's the active enlistment of the scientific veneer as a mercenary in your personal campaign, dressing up self-interest in a lab coat.
*Example: "The CEO's presentation was a masterpiece of self-serving science. He highlighted the one internal study showing a potential benefit of their supplement, presented it with glossy graphs, and buried the ten independent studies showing no effect in an appendix written in 8-point font. The science wasn't a search for truth; it was a PR asset."*