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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host
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To: Math Junkie who wrote (37609)8/4/2008 9:28:11 AM
From: joefromspringfield  Read Replies (1) of 42834
 
Math_junkie pontificated:

"It's very difficult for the average person to know what is true and what isn't when it comes to scientific issues, especially ones with implications for public policy. That's why the issue of whether there is or isn't a consensus, how much of a consensus, etc. is important. People throw that 31,000+ number around as if it should be accepted as deciding the issue. It would be much more useful to know the percentage."

GOOD GRIEF even I know that consensus is meaningless when it comes to science. There was a time when the consensus of scientists were sure that the sun revolved around the earth. They though that a scientist named Galileo was a nut.

Consensus in science has about as much meaning as the fact that Al Gore won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election. Just as we don't elect a president be popular vote we don't conduct science by consensus.
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