http://www.opposingviews.com/users/ursulaminor I believe in taking the world as it really is, not how people wish it were, and for social and political solutions for problems based on the way people really behave, not on how people think they ought to. Opinion is not truth, not even mine, and anecdotes are not data. I maintain the right, privilege and responsibility to change my mind in the face of conclusive and reliable evidence - not rhetoric. Sometimes we are right, but very often we are wrong, and it is a failure to correct ourselves when we are that leads to the worst mistakes of human judgment.