Democracy Dies in Darkness

"If it's concensus it isn't science...if it's science it isn't concensus"...reality is not a popularity contest

While yes, these scientists you're referencing did break consensus, it's worth noting that these same scientists also were able to provide claims that bore repeatable results that could be tested.

Simply going against the consensus does not make you smart, or ahead of the curve. It simply puts you in dangerous water as you need to be 100% certain of your claim that you can prove it. Otherwise, you're selling snake oil.

I certainly did not mean to suggest that going against concensus makes one smart or ahead of the curve and to be honest I don't think I did

Yup... Twitter revealed what happens to those that question the official narrative... 0bama started that practice...

Democracy: Of course every famous person has the same political views when you cancel and censor the ones that don’t

Or you just define who is a scientist based on whether you like what they say.

Sometimes it is better to have a closed mind.

The scientific community keeps itself in check by the desire to prove the other wrong. This process is called "peer-review." Ultimately, this is healthy and conducive to the cornerstone of what science is: repeatable results.

If you have a guy coming out with some tinfoil hat conspiracy theories with results that can't be replicated, yeah. He's gonna get replaced. Science is not a philosophical debate in which consensus determines the results.

not sure what scientists you are listening too, but I rarely hear all scientists agree.

Especially since science agreed to do falsification of theories (falsification= scientists craft a theoriy and then they do all they can to proof that is wrong) and stop doing verification as this is just way to easy and is always manipulated by the own self and its personal interests.

And I can recommend to do that with your theories on politics, life and all the rest. Try to find out what could be possible wrong on your opinions, believes, ideas, models of how things are. And when you are above of 95% sure that your Theory isn't wrong start to spread it.

Have fun questioning yourself.

They won't question themselves, that will break their glass ceiling of Cult45.

I keep it with the science and keep on trying to proof that it can be different and humans start to challenge their own beliefs instead of just looking for verification of the own beliefs.

Of course I understand why this is hard to do. As realising that the own beliefs, assumptions, theories of life are potentially wrong is a scary thought.