Which brings me to the difficult choice we face on coronavirus vaccinations. The conventional wisdom is that there is some argument, yet unmade and perhaps undiscovered, that will change the minds of the roughly 30 percent of American adults who haven’t gotten at least one dose. There probably isn’t. The unvaccinated often hold their views strongly, and many are making considered, cost-benefit calculations, given how they weigh the risks of the virus, and the information sources they trust to inform them of those risks.

Paul (1990), as a basic part of his program for critical thinking, contrasts fairminded critical thinkers with both uncritical thinkers and closedminded critical thinkers.

I sat on the balcony with my cup of coffee and my inhaler and I scratched my Scratchies. I won $6.

Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language[…]; his clerks, however, understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there. For his signature, however, that was different.