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April 21, 2015

For Earth Day: Michael Crichton explains why there is "no such thing as consensus science"

"In science consensus is irrelevant.
What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period." - AEI | Carpe Diem Blog サ AEIdeas

Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 21, 2015 5:58 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Although that is true at the margins - and Climate Science is very much at the margins - it is not true of science in general. Science is 99% consensus in the sense that a researcher looking into discovering something new is relying on the consensus science that is the basis of the assumptions he is making while looking into the new 1%.

Posted by: Brett_McS [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 22, 2015 1:23 AM

Nine out of ten* international experts agree that sixty, maybe seventy per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

*the tenth one disagreed because he didn't think of it first.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 22, 2015 8:46 AM

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