Jun 7, 2023
The Role of Consensus in Scientific Debate
In my last post, it was stated that Peter Vickers asserted that there had never been 95% consensus before and been found to be wrong. We have to be a wee bit careful in refuting that. For example Newtonian mechanics and Galilean relativity was held to be correct for a very long time, but the fact was that those who believed it only operated in regions where it was effectively true, so we cannot…
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