“There is a consensus among we scientists, and those who don’t consent will have all funding cut off, fired from your positions, and personally destroyed.” -Science 2016
Also on point:
““Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.†-Nicolaus Copernicus”
Also: When it comes to our everyday lives, “consensus†is a loaded word, perhaps even one of the most dangerous ones out there. To an individual with a working mind, the fact that most people — even if it’s the overwhelming majority of intelligent, informed people — believe in something shouldn’t shape your opinion at all.
Because part of having a working mind means having the confidence to gather, synthesize and draw conclusions from the information you can access yourself. It’s one of the most valuable things we can do as human beings.
All must genuflect and say three Hail Obamas to Saints Lysenko, Hubbard and Barnum.
I looked up the “cold fusion” hypothesis, and much to my surprise, it was found to be - a complete hoax.
The supposed “fusion” that was claimed to occur at room temperature turned out to be some contaminants that got into the solution, and the published results could not be replicated elsewhere.
Dr. B. Stanley Pons, professor of chemistry at the University of Utah, and his colleague, Dr. Martin Fleischmann of the University of Southampton in England, claimed to have detected cold fusion in an experiment reported upon in March of 1989. This finding was quickly disproved, as reported by the NYT in May 1989, because nobody else could come up with even remotely the same or similar conclusions.
The discrediting of this notion did little for the careers of either Dr. Pons or Dr. Fleischmann. Considering their fate, is it any surprise that the coterie of “climate scientists” would not want any outsiders questioning their conclusions.
Religion is a hard thing to give up.
Back to the DARK AGES everyone talks about, eh? Good idea for an article though.