Via Barry Beelzebub:

I have come to the conclusion that the only way to get through modern life is to assume that everything we are told by any public body is either wrong or a lie.

Of course, there is the old saying never attribute to malice what can be explained away by stupidity, which means we should assume that most of what said public bodies come out with will just be wrong, not intentional lies. But sometimes it just feels like stupidity can only explain so much…