Facts are not always more important than opinions: here"s why

Which is more important, a fact or an opinion on any given subject? It might be tempting to say the fact. But not so fast…Lately, we find ourselves lamenting the post-truth world, in which facts seem no more important than opinions, and sometimes less so.We also tend to see this as a recent devaluation of knowledge. But this is a phenomenon with a long history.As the science fiction writer Isaac