[estearum]

Private companies can pay for their own data collection and if they have a dispute with the government's analysis, they can go to court.

Who exactly is going to pay for these non-governmental independent data collection/analysis efforts?

How about taxpayers pay for one analysis, private parties pay for theirs, courtrooms can resolve inconsistencies on a case-by-case basis.

[gman83]

That would be great if the courts were actually neutral arbitrators and not captured political entities.

[estearum]

"The courts" writ large are doing just fine. SCOTUS in particular is a cesspool, but that is not the typical situation at all.

And in any case, an imperfect adversarial judicial system is dramatically better than whatever la-la-land "government has no data of its own" dystopia GP is imagining.