What utter twaddle! Science is all about coming to a consensus about how a natural phenomenon works. What is a theory (e.g., of evolution, of relativity, etc.) but the best current scientific consensus about a natural phenomenon? 1/https://twitter.com/EcoSenseNow/status/1220759520932007937 …
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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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