• BearOfaTime
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    3 months ago

    Oh, “consensus”.

    If we went by consensus, Einstein, Bohr, Maxwell would’ve been ignored even longer.

    Consensus is politics, not science.

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      3 months ago

      They built consensus because their ideas were compelling.

      That’s how scientific theories coalesce: they begin as hypotheses and people try to disprove them in interesting ways, ultimately leading to a more complete picture.

      You have the process exactly backwards. Nobody should believe you until it has been tested; climate change has scientific consensus because it is a robust hypothesis.