There's no need to shout. An individual can make any theory he chooses. But it only has currency when a consensus is reached. That's the value of a consensus.
Every new discovery in science always comes from that rare individual genius who contradicts the consensus.
Then can you name me that rare individual genius who came up with string theory?
“There’s no need to shout. An individual can make any theory he chooses. But it only has currency when a consensus is reached. That’s the value of a consensus.”
Apperently there is a need to shout since so many people are deaf to the truth. I thought some people might have finally tumbled to it when the “global warming” fraud, driven entirely by the “consensus” idea of “peer review” was revealed for what it is.
A hypothesis only becomes a theory when it has been verified by reality, not how many people agree with it. Every advance in science has been against the accepted “consensus” view, from anesthesia to “heavier then air human flight.” It is not the opinion of any number of people that establishes any truth, it is reality itself, and whatever is an incorrect description of any aspect of reality, it is not true, no matter how many people agree with it.
Consensus is a great method for putting over lies, it is worse than useless in science.
Hank