Also, people construct the systems which intake and transport and control and carry and more the data we utilize today. If people lie, and data doesn’t, but people are who input and intake data and build the infrastructure which data is stored, maintained, manipulated, and distributed, how can data not lie? All of the entire process of data is done by people whom you state lie. Your statement doesn’t to me make sense.

Not to mention, the total lack of data we all have, because there is more data unknown than known, means that data has to have as it comes from us, which we do not hold all of the data there is, since there is more of it and we have less, by that point alone, we have to rely on the best data that our data can represent by there being not all of the data known to represent all of what we cannot yet know. We don’t have absolute knowledge of all there is, only a fraction of it.