Galileo Spoke About The Consensus

My dear Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the remarkable stupidity of the common herd.

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6 Responses to Galileo Spoke About The Consensus

  1. Consensus is an old sceptical rule of thumb used to decide whether a claim is likely to be true. However, the rule of thumb only works on subjects well understood. If you seek a consensus of opinion from experts on something that is not well understood (the climate in 50 years from now, the economic outlook a few years from now, what mathematical strategy is best to derive a grand unified field theory), then your consensus of expert opinion is generally no more reliable than guessing.

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