Like law, it needs interpretation. So we pay lawyers to tell us what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. For the lawyers, that is. The most valuable knowledge is raw knowledge. Everyone has a right to access knowledge.
Most people think that they can actually exercise that right.
Data is massaged and packaged and manipulated before letting it pass into public comsumption. Look at the pro-smoking lobby. These people are intelligent. They have to be to persuade people that smoking is just dandy for you. Statistically it isn't going to kill you.