While traditional public relations may also rely on creative presentation of the facts, spin often implies disingenuous, deceptive and/or highly manipulative tactics.
This suggests a potentially disingenuous quality to the refrain the priest doesn't lie uttered by several characters throughout the course of the novel.
Defenders maintain that those who undermine the canon do so out of primarily political interests, and that such criticisms are misguided and/or disingenuous.
Other criticisms may be summarized as the teleological use of econometrics by economists and the disingenuous treatment of any research on the gold standard.