They know the truth. Dont kid yourself. Noones that stupid. What they do is called damage control.

When people blatantly lie, go far out of their way to manipulate data to try and portray a desired result other than reality. Argue 100% against anything and everything, even the abolute proven and absolute obvious.... Im not buying the "just another joe hunter" story. Ive been around sites like hpa long enough to know what is going on, and its not good.