Fair enough, Jack.

The presenter states: If "everyone's entitled to their opinion" just means no one has the right to stop people thinking and saying whatever they want, then the statement is true, but fairly trivial. No one can stop you saying that vaccines cause autism, no matter how many times that claim has been disproven.

But if "entitled to an opinion" means "entitled to have your views treated as serious candidates for the truth" then it's pretty clearly false. And this too is a distinction that tends to get blurred"

It's an important distinction-----because the 2nd interpretation really has nothing to do with somebody having the 'right' to any opinion, but rather, whether we need to believe it....or even rate it as worth arguing against.

And of course we all have that right.

Personally, I like to wonder where a particular opinion comes from........I tend to be more excited about exploring the process as to how we form opinions rather than emphasizing wrong vs right.

But that's just me.