Logical Fallacy of Exaggeration / Stretching the Truth / Overstatement

The logical fallacy of exaggeration /  stretching the truth / overstatement occurs when a point is made by saying something that would be true, but the truth has been distorted in some way.

Examples of the Logical Fallacy of Exaggeration / Stretching the Truth / Overstatement

Bill Nye, debating against Creation Science at the Creation Museum: "these elements that we all know on the periodic table of chemicals and the ones we don’t know were created when stars explode . . . Hans Bethe who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the process by which stars create all these elements."

Bethe actually just proposed that stars are powered by nuclear fusion. Bill stretched this into "discovering the process by which stars create all these elements."

Bill Nye, debating against Creation Science at the Creation Museum: "Snow ice forms over the winter as snowflakes fall and are crushed down by subsequent layers, they’re crushed together, entrapping the little bubbles, and the little bubbles must needs be the ancient atmosphere. There’s nobody running around with a hypodermic needle, you know, squirting ancient atmosphere into the bubbles, and we find certain of these cylinders to have 680,000 layers."

Bill makes it sound like these layers were counted. They were not. There are no distinct rings, but they are calculated using circular reasoning.