[dr_lew]

... which the publisher calls “entirely at odds with scientific consensus.”

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

-Galileo Galilei

Not to say Ebell is that guy, but this emphasis - nay elevation of "consensus" to the position of Determiner of Scientific Truth, is antithetical to everything I learned as a hero-worshipping scienceling.

[dr_lew]

Wow, I just made up “scienceling” as a term for “budding scientist” or whatever, but when I searched on it, I found it’s a Twitter address, and I have to say it’s not what I had in mind:

Fi QP
@scienceling
BioNanoNerd, egg freak and bookworm. Splashes of roller derby, equestrianism and hockey, with dollops of WISE and STEM. Dubliner nerding it up in Edinburgh