Is it science or consensus? The Michael Crichton science/not science methodology
Posted in Denialism on Mar 24th, 2010
Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. [...]