There you have it consensus is science. Hundreds of years on the rigor and need to challenge results all erased on the alter of consensus.
Some real rigorous employment of the scientific method for sure with that group.
In general, scientific method went the way of the dodo bird once it embraced politics and political ideology. One more bit of proof that progressivism, liberalism, etc. is utter cancer and that cancer spreads.....like a huge ass bonfire.