> At the very least they are paid very very well... to state only the information consistent with what the person paying them wanted to them to say Anecdotally

> At the very least they are paid very very well... to state only the information consistent with what the person paying them wanted to them to say Anecdotally, if you replace 'paid' with 'incentivized' my understanding is the same. And here's a totally unrelated Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Baden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Baden