It's terrible, but it's reliably terrible. You always have exactly one layer of distortion between the evidence and reality: one human being. And that human b

It's terrible, but it's reliably terrible. You always have exactly one layer of distortion between the evidence and reality: one human being. And that human being can be held accountable for willful misrepresentation. (Hearsay, when there is more than one human in the chain, is treated differently.)