Naalala ko tong word na to "consensus" lagi kasi itong pabor sa kabila.... ngayon atleast may pampalobag-loob.
* Crichton on Consensus : When you hear consensus,
consensus, you might have reason to doubt the
consensus. Physician and Jurassic Park author Michael
Crichton warned at CalTech: "I regard consensus science as
an extremely pernicious development that ought to be
stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of
consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a
way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already
settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists
agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet,
because you’re being had. 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. 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. ... I would remind
you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked.
Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is
not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists
agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the
sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to
anyone to speak that way."