Researchers: “When individuals are fully independent, even under highly unfavorable circumstances a consensus provides strong evidence for the correctness of the affirmed position. This no longer remains the case once dependence, polarization, and external pressure are introduced. With such interventions, the probability of a false consensus increases dramatically.
” “Shut up, he explained” is not consensus, it’s false consensus.
Tag: consensus science
Robert J. Marks on the “Listen to science” mantra
Marks points out that politicians who insist that their beliefs represent science might be surprised by the checkered history of that view.
Ethan Siegel at Forbes on “finally” making the United States a “scientific nation”
Siegel: “It is a fundamentally misinformative act to present multiple sides of a controversial issue equally when the scientific consensus overwhelmingly favors one perspective.” Actually, consensus is achieved in many ways, including some that contribute to the likelihood that the consensus will be wrong, no matter how many experts believe it. In fact, the surest way to often be wrong is to adopt the very attitude Siegel displays here.
Michael Egnor asks re COVID-19: How much of the science knowledge is fake?
Um, yes. A lot of people who want, for whatever reason, to survive and thrive, are going to have a lot of questions hereafter about the thousand shrieking heads of “consensus science.”Before, it wasn’t about anything that mattered so much to us. But, surveying the ruins now…
BioLogos is marketing theistic evolution and “consensus science” to Christian schools
In the real world, this is not the time to be buying into “consensus” but to be advocating reform.
Michael Egnor on Jeffrey Epstein: “Consensus science” meant not denouncing him
Listen to this: People’s lives may depend on other people not speaking out. For example about design in nature.
Why a senior scientist doesn’t “believe” in “science”
Robert Tracinski: Many people use the claim “as a way of declaring belief in a proposition which is outside their knowledge and which they do not understand.”
YouTube warns us against questioning consensus science
Further to kairosfocus’s thoughts yesterday on the digital empire suppressing the free flow of ideas: Buzzfeed reported August 7 that “YouTube Is Fighting Back Against Climate Misinformation.” As of July 9, “YouTube is now adding fact checks to videos that question climate change … as a part of its ongoing effort to combat the rampant Read More…