Gandhi's Eight Blunders of the World. However well-intentioned and provisionally useful it may have been, it was based on an inherent neutrality which concealed power and falsified knowledge. About her influential books on feminist moral theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty.
Facts are the world's data.
Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape-like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.