[WilliamEdward]

It's a rhetoric not a fact, but any logical person can deduce that an industry that stands to lose money, and has a lot of it, will use some of it to push a narrative that everything is fine. This is tutorial level critical thinking.

[cgiles]

It is also the basis of much conspiracy theorizing. The chain of logic is:

1. Group X has an incentive to do Y

2. We observe Y

3. We also observe specific instances of X doing Y

4. Therefore, all Y is caused by X

The problem, obviously, comes in step 4.