Comments: For Earth Day: Michael Crichton explains why there is "no such thing as consensus science"
Although that is true at the margins - and Climate Science is very much at the margins - it is not true of science in general. Science is 99% consensus in the sense that a researcher looking into discovering something new is relying on the consensus science that is the basis of the assumptions he is making while looking into the new 1%.
Posted by Brett_McS at April 22, 2015 1:23 AM
Nine out of ten* international experts agree that sixty, maybe seventy per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
*the tenth one disagreed because he didn't think of it first.
Posted by chasmatic at April 22, 2015 8:46 AM