Yes, we've seen plenty of instances in this site where people are utterly immune to the facts. Indeed I've often stated here that people can't be reasoned out of an opinion that they weren't reasoned into. We've seen plenty of examples of people forming an opinion and then looking for confirmatory data. And if that data is discredited, the opinion doesn't change, because the opinion wasn't reliant on the data in the first place.

I was simply talking about my own attitude toward the facts or data and my own need to base all opinions on what I'd consider the most reliable or pertinent facts of the issue.

But it needs to be understood that there are competing data on most issues. As per Foxy's link, the author felt that he had the facts on climate change and that simply imparting those would cause a change of mind. But he fails to realise that others have other facts that they find more reliable or pertinent.

Facts change a lot in our lifetimes. It's absurd
that we'd believe the same things at 50 that we
believed at 15. I guess it comes with life experience
and education that we often begin to see things in a
different light at times. I know how I used to feel
about transgender and gay people until I got to
know some of them and realized that they are human
beings and the damage that ridicule and censure can
do. I used to be pro feminism - until I got to know
some die-hardliners who definitely got up my nose.
The same went for political parties - and religious
institutions.

So we can change our minds on issues - and reserve
the right to also change back again.

I remember someone asking me - "Why did you change your
mind on that?" And all I could think of saying at that
time was - "My mood changed!" There you go.

Facts change a lot in our lifetimes.
Foxy,
When something is fact nothing can change it !

individual,

New facts can, and do.
Look at medicine, science, new technologies ...
and so on. The only constant in life is change.

New facts can, and do.
Foxy,
They're new facts then, but the former facts don't change !

individual,

The former facts simply get replaced. That's
how change occurs.