A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die.
— Max Planck, as quoted by Adam Grant in his book “Originals”.
Labels are hard. The more strongly we feel attached to them, the more prone we are to confirmation bias, etc., and that’s intellectually stultifying. If you’re open to the world, and new evidence, your views should be changing all the time. Intellectual growth…