moss
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Carlisle, Massachusetts, U.S.
That’s actually not well said, verification of theory or findings is reproducible results, which is a form of consensus.A quote from Michael Crichton, MD: “Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.”
Of course we need great minds to pioneer new ideas and different perspectives, eventually there needs to be verification, at which point there is consensus.
I doubt that Crichton would disagree with that.
-AJ










