This describes many "consensuses" in social psychology (including but not not just politicized ones). "Consensus" is a political argument. Validity and strength of underlying evidence is a scientific argument.https://twitter.com/Jon_StewartMill/status/1020094940167254022 …
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often, "consensus" is based on claims in the pubbed lits (I think that is where the orig 97% climate consensus came from; the lit, not a survey). And pubbed lits in psych are replete w/so many biases its hard to know what to make of them.
There's lots of climate science surveys too with congruent results. That consensus is real enough. You can survey people and control for political imbalance in the results.
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oh boy. I was not intending to contest the reality of that consensus -- or of its conclusions. my only pt was that there can be a diff b/w consensus as "what most scientists believe" and as "what most of the articles say."
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