Must we take a position on everything?

 
Some people want you to take a position on everything: the moon landings, vaccines, GMO’s, global warming, socialism v free markets, etc.

Why?

A person can’t research everything to within an inch of their life. Yes, we can rely on experts in the media, but are they really experts or have they sold their soul for money and prestige? 

Instead of buying into everything, we focus our attention on those topics we deem important and we draw our own conclusions while leaving other, less important areas as an open finding.

For example, a person with no children who lives in a country with a high standard of living has little need to research deeply into vaccines.  There is just no need for such medical interventions in such a circumstance and therefore no need to draw conclusions about their efficiency or safety.  The situation is different for a new parent or someone considering visiting an undeveloped tropical country. For them they will need to become informed as they will have a decision to make.

Similarly with global warming.  Only a fool wastes energy and everyone who cares about the earth supports the movement to clean energy. Therefore, there is no need for a reasonable person to draw any conclusions about "climate change". One could argue such conclusions are needed to give us the inspiration to lobby the government.  But for those of us who will never lobby the government anyway, such a position does not need to be drawn.  In other words, whether (man-made) global warming is real or not will not affect our decision making and so is perfectly irrelevant to us.  Few people seem to understand this simple point.