It’s a strange thing: we admire people who “stand their ground,” but we rarely celebrate people who change their minds — even when changing your mind in front of better evidence is exactly what intellectual honesty looks like.

In most professional contexts, consistency is rewarded and changing one’s position is read as weakness. Science runs on the opposite norm: the willingness to revise conclusions when evidence demands it is the system’s core strength, not a flaw.

That norm — holding beliefs in proportion to evidence — is learnable, and it transfers far beyond science: to hiring decisions, strategy, policy, everyday judgment.

It’s also the founding idea behind SciLit.eu, a free e-learning platform launching this July, built by six European organizations and co-funded by the EU through Erasmus+.

A question for your own reflection: when did you last change your mind because of evidence — and what made it possible?

Pre-registration: https://scilit.eu

This is an Erasmus+ project developed by the Romanian Secular-Humanist Association in partnership with CICAP (Italy), Mythodologie (France), Zavod Boter (Slovenia), SOYA (Hungary) and ECIESC (Bulgaria). Co-funded by EU.