Rex
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I'm talking about consensus among scientists, not among political and religious leaders.Even “consensus” is bullshit most of the time.
Copernicus had him beat by 100 years. Again, I'm talking about scientific consensus. Once we devised and executed the right experiments, science self-corrected, and it even turned around political and most religious consensus.Before Galileo the “consensus” was that all celestial bodies rotate around Earth.
Another example of how science self-corrects.Before Barry Marshall the “consensus” was that ulcers are caused by “nerves”. The guy was nearly laughed out of his field before he got a Nobel for his discovery of Heliobacter Pylori.
You cherry-pick a couple of examples, and then claim that scientific consensus is mostly bullshit. If that's so, you might as well throw away every modern gadget you own, Fractal gear included. Those things are all made possible by thousands of widely-accepted scientific discoveries. Solid-state physics, coronary bypass surgery, your phone, your car, treatments for heliobacter pylori... they must be mostly bullshit, right?
That's because too many people get their science from political pundits....whenever I hear “consensus” I just automatically substitute the word with “politically motivated bullshit”.
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