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The problem is not that they are trying examples which confirm their hypothesis it's that they are trying only those examples which test their hypothesis.
The article focuses on testing examples which don't work because people don't do this enough. Searching for positive examples is (as you argue) a neccessary part of testing a hypothesis, and people seem to have no problem applying this. What people fail to do is to search for the negative as well.
Both positive and negative examples are, I'd say, equally important, but people's focus is completely imbalanced.