Dr Jay Bhattacharya and Rav Arora have started a new cite, which challenges the idea of a scientific consensus. This consensus idea was given public expression when the heat was turned up on the global warming debate. Thus, the line went that 98 percent of climate scientists, or is it all scientists, believe say, the IPCC, United Nations position, on manmade global warming. Of course, that statistic was subjected to critique, and refutation. But, even if 98 percent of academics in climate change-related departments did believe the IPCC narrative, does that prove that it is true? During Covid we heard the same thing said about the lab leak origin of Covid, which was dismissed, supposedly as a racist idea that dared to criticise communist China, who are beyond reproach, not having white skin. But, now the lab leak hypothesis is winning favour. As the historian of science Thomas Kuhn showed in his book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), scientists do tend to operate in paradigms, but overtime, younger researchers see the problems with the old thought and work out new ways which replaces the old, when the old practitioners die out. Thus, a scientific consensus, is really just a short term thing indeed, if it exists at all.
https://www.illusionconsensus.com/p/the-dangerous-illusion-of-scientific
