It’s also nonsense to claim nearly all scientific discoveries are made by individuals. Scientific discoveries/progress are based on previous observations and work, or, as Sir Isaac Newton himself said, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the sholders [sic] of Giants.” 2/
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Stephen Hawking once said, "Each generation stands on the shoulders of those who have gone before them, just as I did as a young PhD student in Cambridge, inspired by the work of Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell and Albert Einstein." 3/
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The only people who claim that consensus has no role in science are people who have no idea how science actually works, usually cranks, quacks, and/or science deniers. 4/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/hostility-towards-scientific-consensus-a-red-flag-identifying-a-crank-or-quack/ …
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I suppose we have the late Michael Crichton (a climate science denier) to thanks for the idiotic denialist trope that “if it’s consensus it’s not science.” It was BS then, and it remains BS. 5/5
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You had me at Twaddle
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Somebody should maybe hand this guy a copy of Kuhn and tell him that’s the most basic start of understanding how this stuff works.
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