# Facts won't change your mind about anything **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 19, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-wont-change-your-mind-about-anything/710293 "2015-01-19T17:29:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 75
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-wont-change-your-mind-about-anything/710293/75 "2015-01-21T21:38:50Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > This is extraordinary evasion: I give you license to define the terms however you see fit! Patent nonsense. Another example of what one finds all the time, in which even the most basic things are somehow a matter of great contention. Or for some reason, obscured behind unclear language and frivolity. Or a subject of word games. If the most dire predictions are correct, we are discussing the biggest real threat ever known for mankind. Or at the very least the biggest threat we can do something about (as opposed to comet impacts, super volcanoes, an ice age, or a bio-engineered smallpox/super infuenza hybrid) OK that last one we can also do something about. But the ever present baffling behavior? What do you mean by AGW? Anything other than a concise and understandable answer, (or at least a link to a source you got your idea from), is ridiculous behavior, considering you believe it’s a huge threat, and an important issue. Very important. Who would pass up a chance to state the problem clearly? It makes no sense. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facts-wont-change-your-mind-about-anything/710293)._