[protonfish]

And yet otherwise reasonable people embrace the concept of "scientific consensus" most notably in the man made global warming discussion. This is nothing but an appeal to authority . While it is true that commonly good ideas are accepted by a majority of researchers in the relevant field, it is not 100% guaranteed. It is such a shame that we reach for the "scientific consensus" argument when there is no need due to the overwhelming evidence for man made global warming. It's lazy, sloppy, and encourages group think over rational inquiry.

[etherael]

Except the case for anthropogenically induced global warming is just not nearly so airtight as those constantly talking about the "overwhelming scientific consensus" would have you believe.

https://mises.org/library/skeptics-case

Note; not "climate change" in general, or even just "global warming" but the specific hypothesis that it's all down to co2 emissions by humans, invariably followed up with a proposed solution to the problem consisting of an increase in state power and interference into the markets in order to avert certain catastrophe, that has the neat side effect of allowing the political authorities of the world to impose yet another tax on almost all economic activity on the planet.

And all of the above gets neatly rolled up into a label like "climate change" instead of the greatly expanded problem / solution combination the harder the expanded problem / solution combination is critically evaluated.

Nothing to see here, move along.