This has been my basic frustration with what I call "YouTube logic," which seems to take this form:

1) Determine what you would prefer to be true. 2) Spend your time absorbing and referencing supporting evidence, at the expense of verifying its credibility. 3) When presented with contradicting evidence, spend your time dismissing or discrediting it, at the expense of verifying its credibility. 4) Re-affirm your belief successfully through willful or accidental intellectual dishonesty.

Perhaps there's a formal name for this. YouTube logic works for me, though, because that makes it sound appropriately juvenile.