Quote Originally Posted by jmm99 View Post
2. Lawyers' opinions in this area are not reliable because they vary all over the map - e.g., consider the range of lawyerly opinions about the drone strikes, and the range of opinions by investigators regarding the material facts.
There are so-called opinions that are unsupported assertions and there are so-called opinions supported by evidence. Any one of the former is just as good as any other of the former. The same can’t be said about the second category.

One could argue that it’s turtles all the way down and that all evidence is only so-called and assertional. That’s too Ingsoc for my tastes, though.