>>Facts are overrated when trying to make an argument.

This is true. Modern argument starts with positions people already have decided are true. "Facts" are the things to be found on Google to justify the stance. Always it is possible to find these facts if you look long enough. ;-) The other benefit of this approach is that people never need to change their minds or consider that new facts justify an alternative position. No matter how much evidence piles up to justify a new position, always somebody somewhere has the perfect nugget to justify sticking with the old. Certainly in 2012 even King Canute could have found facts on Google to prove that there is no such thing as the sea, let alone a tide that might come in.