Many of the newspaper stories you read about diet and vitamin have been initially funded by business interests.

Newspapers themselves are biased to the right and left. The New York Times is a left-wing newspaper. Fox News is right-winged. Both are informative and well-reseached, but neither one is going to spend equal time on opposing views.

In a courtroom, every juror is biased to some degree. Attorneys who vet prospective jurors intentionally try to pack the jury with jurors they predict will make a finding that is favorable to their side of the argument.

Everyone who is an adult is biased, although some have a greater ability to rise above their biases.

On the Supreme Court, many justices have been chosen because they were predicted to be of one mind, only to have them change their stripes, so to speak. David Souter is one noted example. He was picked for his conservatism, but he usually votes with the liberal side of the court.

A simplistic example — someone on here asked which was a better college, X or Y. I attended X, so I answered X. I have a bias. X may well indeed be the better school, but I had a bias in answering the way I did because I received a great education and had a good experience there.

Like the old saying goes, “There are always at least two sides to every story.” That just means there is bias in the telling, due to allegiances, experience, perspective, etc.

It can destroy the truth of what the person has to say if the bias is too strong.

The reader or listener neesd to weigh what has been said and done with other knowledge.It is the only way to determine truth.