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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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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A favourite word of mine in science is "consilience", in the sense of multiple individual, unrelated data sources pointing to the same conclusion, e.g. molecular biology and biogeography pointing to similar patterns in evolution. People don't often get that the...
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...results of science are largely consilient. Ice core data doesn't have to agree with tree ring data which doesn't have to agree with data from varves or... ...but it does.
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