Exactly right. Consensus implies groupthink, the opposite of real science. Science isn't about opinion, which is a required component of consensus. Science entails testing a theory to see if it holds up by repeatedly reproducing empirically verifiable results (hundreds, if not thousands, of times). Any theory that's proposed an inevitable outcome countless times over the course of many decades that was testable merely by letting time pass, only for each test to produce failed output over and over again, is very problematic.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6557026/#:~:text=Consensus%20is%20the%20business%20of,In%20science%2C%20consensus%20is%20irrelevant.
Consensus has no value in a scientific argument; only experimental evidence matters. As stated already by Galileo Galilei, “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” Physician, producer, and writer Michael Crichton formulated:
[T]he 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 are relevant are reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
Psychologist Daniel Kahneman explains that scientists tend to experience what he calls “theory-induced blindness”: once a theory is accepted and used as a thinking tool, it is extraordinarily difficult to notice its flaws. Even when one comes upon an observation that does not fit the theory, one assumes that there must be an explanation that was somehow missed. Therefore, no consensus of experts can be an argument in scientific discussion.
https://moviechat.org/bd0000082/Politics/620678b4ac86d617c749b134/Why-cant-conservatives-accept-scientific-consensus?reply=620ac419bbc0e93442d0fa98
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Never believe. Always question. Rebuke belief, a.k.a. bias, a.k.a. groupthink, a.k.a. ideology, the bane of skeptical, logical reason.
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