Suppose you’d like to believe that $p$ (for example, that you are popular), whether or not it’s true. What can you do to help? A natural initial thought is that you could engage in $Intentionally\; Biased\; Inquiry$: you could look into whether $p$, but do so in a way that you expect to predominantly yield evidence in favour of $p$. This paper hopes to do two things. The first is to argue that this initial thought is mistaken: intentionally biased inquiry is impossible. The second is to show that reflections on intentionally biased inquiry strongly support a controversial ‘access’ principle which states that, for all $p$, if $p$ is (not) part of our evidence, then that $p$ is (not) part of our evidence is itself part of our evidence.