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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 1426844" data-attributes="member: 45230">In recent decades, the term consensus science has come to be associated with climate change/global warming.&nbsp; The appeal to a consensus has been used to avoid honest and open debate about the extent of human influence on the climate system.&nbsp; Climate change has become the poster child for the widely documented corruption in many fields of science resulting from competition for funding, tying funding to specific policy outcomes, and the increasing pressure to publish or perish“There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. … .”&nbsp; … Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E = mc². Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.”<a href="http://fuelfix.com/blog/2014/10/05/the-corruption-of-science/" target="_blank">http://fuelfix.com/blog/2014/10/05/the-corruption-of-science/</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 1426844, member: 45230"] In recent decades, the term consensus science has come to be associated with climate change/global warming. The appeal to a consensus has been used to avoid honest and open debate about the extent of human influence on the climate system. Climate change has become the poster child for the widely documented corruption in many fields of science resulting from competition for funding, tying funding to specific policy outcomes, and the increasing pressure to publish or perish [B][I]“There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus[/I][/B][I]. … .” … Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E = mc². Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.” [url]http://fuelfix.com/blog/2014/10/05/the-corruption-of-science/[/url][/I] [/QUOTE]

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