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To: Little Joe who wrote (14621)	12/5/2009 11:53:01 AM
From: RetiredNow	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 86356

Consensus is actually very important. If you have 10 scientists that have peer reviewed a paper and 9 out of 10 say they agree with the results, then the probability is very high that the results are accurate. I find it very interesting that you all discount the value of consensus. There is always the possibility of group think and I don't want to discount that either, but science works through the peer review process and more often than not works to weed out papers based on bad data, unscrupulous behavior and outright fraud. Isolated instances of fraud do not invalidate an entire body of evidence over 150 years of science. What you guys are doing now is equivalent to one scientist manufacturing a dinosaur bone and then you guys all claiming that dinosaurs don't exist because of this one scientist. It's very silly, and yet, you all persist in denying all of the science anyway. What does that say about human behavior?