No, You're NOT entitled to your opinion.

I subscribe to a number of newletters from thinkers and aggregators that intrigue me. Here's a very interesting piece that came from one of those newletters. I found it a very interesting and helpful perspective which I think will become part of my classes in the future. Here's the article (some of the links are fun to follow as well):

No, You're not entitled to your opinion.

How would you distinguish ideas (opinions) that require support from argument from those that are truly opinions?

Where, besides vaccination, have you seen this argument that an undefended opinion about a data driven topic should have equal footing with the facts?

What, in your understanding, is the difference between expert consensus about the meaning of data versus proof?

To be clear, science is not immune to this challenge as a reading of the history of Cold Fusion at the University of Utah will illustrate.