This would be very interesting - How we might be hardwired for perceiving facts
Your Brain Lies to you
With respect to my previous thought, loss of Editor, it may have real bad misinformation spreading. Which is very bad. Or on the other hand, Editors are not influencing the facts presented according to their bias, as discussed in the article, which could be quite good. We shall See....
It may provide some explanation of the observation reported in a recent paper. It claims that "gossip has a strong influence on the resulting behavior even when participants have access to the original information (i.e., direct observation) as well as gossip about the same information."
Therefore, if we are hardwired for perciving facts not directly observed, we will obviously pay more attention to gossip. Besically, we want to fit any observation to an already known model or explanation. Thus the job of a Scientist becomes even more difficult, to always be directed by the facts/observation not by previously known models.
