[Shikadi]

I think this is a semantic argument... If 100 independent scientists reproduce results, those results themselves are a scientific consensus, are they not?

[craftinator]

Yes, at that point the political consensus adopts the results of rigorous scientific testing as it's new bling

[ColanR]

Insofar as it's a semantic argument, it's irrelevant.

> If 100 independent scientists reproduce results, those results themselves are a scientific consensus

Not in any sense that's relevant to the discovery of new information or its verification.