will come to
results that portray the US as better, so to encourage Europeans to
mimick American policies. Economics isn't a science, it's ideology to a
large extent.


Very true!

I think economics is relatively science based, but the interpretations
are often ideological. However, that is true with many fields.
Everything from physics to astronomy to geology to archeology.

It would be if you confuse/conflate the DATA and the INTERPRETATION and
the
SUGGESTED ACTION.

Of course, for someone, or an entire culture, that is used to being led by
the nose (Europe and other statist cultures) by their media, schools,
priests, government, etc., it becomes a big problem.

Sounds like the US this, Christian fundamentalists, the gun lobby, the
growing government, all trying to tell people how to live. Take the recent
Schiavo case. Fancy Congress coming in at the weekend to pass a law to
interfere like that.
Worthy of the communists/fascists. As for media you buy the side that suits
your views.