Hence the push in the USA to jigger data like the US Census, or just not collect the data, like the Dickey Amendment, or the state of Florida shutting down collecting COVID data, coroners that have never given covid as a cause of death.

Even more blatantly, the 2020 election Big Lie. Zero data, just opinions and feelings

Once you've got The God Given Truth, it's important to not collect data that contradicts it.

Unfortunately, the first assumption is incorrect, maybe at the level of quantum physics. More macro definitions of "reality" get even more fuzzy. Blue vs black dress etc. Sometimes heterogeneity is the reality.

"Gravity doesn't care." -C. J. Cherryh