Both Sides?

I was on a Zoom call the other day with a guy who was defending Fox News on the basis that it’s “for people who want both sides of the story.”

The cartoon at left speaks to this.  If you’re talking about a matter of opinion, e.g., who was the greatest baseball player of all time, there really are two (or more) sides of the story.

In science, that’s simply not the case. No one with any sense wants to hear why Donald Trump thinks climate change is a hoax.