Paul said:
>As a professional journalist for more than 20 years, I can tell you that in
>politics more than any other field, information is only as good as its
>source. In politics, there are very few things that can be called a "fact,"
>and even those few facts can be put in a false context to make them, like
>statistics, to appear to mean exactly the opposite of what they really are.
I totally agree with this - I did not intend what I wrote to come off as
naively sing-songing that we should believe everything anyone says. There
is virtually no such thing as a hard "fact" as far as I am concerned. And
it is important to be a skeptic, but, as Paul said, the problem comes in
when people dismiss information without evaluating it.
-Yael
