Tolerance must have its bounds, or the intransigent minority will eventually trample over the reasonable majority. Applied to this situation – I will only show

Tolerance must have its bounds, or the intransigent minority will eventually trample over the reasonable majority. Applied to this situation – I will only show respect to people who earn the respect by being willing to engage on equal terms: admitting the possibility that one's opinion could be wrong, following scientific best practice, to actually change one's mind when swayed by evidence.