Quote Originally Posted by KerrAvon View Post
I completely agree that liking someone is not a pre-condition to agreeing with them. Assessing the weight to attach to someone's opinion necessarily involves assessing the person, however.

Morgan isn't a scientist. He's someone who has made a living out of an aggressive style of journalism that depends upon taking extreme and provocative positions. I take that into account in determining the weight that I am willing to attach to scientific opinions expressed by him.
The piece wasn’t about science. It was about people changing their mind and seeing that what they were being told by scientists as contradictory or false.

I am clearly not a scientist apart from working in quality control. I have changed my mind on what we were being told about the vaccine through experiences.