Questioning the BLS data without being able to explain how the data is collected and analyzed is not a way to fight misinformation, it's a way to encourage it.

Questioning the BLS data without being able to explain how the data is collected and analyzed is not a way to fight misinformation, it's a way to encourage it. If OP had made some more detailed arguments, like 'the methods for imputing homeowners rent seem biased' or 'it seems disingenuous to keep a static weighting during COVID, despite the major observed shift away from services and to goods' then I would love to engage on that. But randomly saying 'this EXTREMELY transparent dataset seems fishy' is just encouraging people to 'do their own research' on things they have no expertise in.