Why is the psychologists’ approach so superior to the economists’? Simple. Economists reject all-pervasive testimony on lame methodological grounds. Psychologists, in contrast, aggressively cross-examine this all-pervasive testimony, and empirically expose its all-pervasive perjury. Despite what they say, people really are selfish, businesses really are greedy, students really are lazy, and workers really are materialistic. Econo-cynicism has a firm basis in psychological fact.

Source:

https://www.econlib.org/archives/2014/04/social_desirabi_1.html

Unfortunately, a great deal of what is published as psychological fact is wrong.

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ioannidis

Agreed. A lot of the bias is simply selective omission, rather than direct editorial slant in appearing articles.

Of course, a lot of the media refuses to believe that they do that…pure, unbiased seekers-after-truth and speakers-of-truth-to-power that they are…

“Employers often openly compared their workers to children. I suspect they’re on to something.”

https://www.econlib.org/archives/2013/09/why_dont_wages.html

Look at the US media for examples. The reality is that we’re not really lied to about a lot of things–They just don’t talk about them. You never hear about the major policy changes or programs that are going to have truly long-lasting effect; you just hear about the stuff they want you focus on, while they do their thing in obscurity. Obscurity that’s there because the media they control doesn’t bring it up.

Examine, for example, the way that the Obama administration never discussed that a major reason they were so down on pipelines was because a major source of their political funding was heavily invested in rail transportation of oil. You have to dig into the deep financials for both the party and Berkshire Hathaway to figure that out–And, there’s been virtually zero coverage on that whole issue.

It’s not what they’re telling you and talking about, it’s the stuff that they’re carefully not mentioning and going out of their way to keep out of circulation.

It’s just like the same sort of dealing that was going on with regards to the Clinton’s move of the responsibility for technology transfer oversight from the Department of Defense over to Commerce. No mention ever made about that, which enabled the transfer of Loral’s launch technology to the Chinese. Technology whose development was paid for by the US taxpayer, and whose weaponization is now pointed back at us. Ever heard of that? No? Wonder why?

Omission. Biggest tool in their chest, and the one you really need to be concerned with.