Consensus Matters II: Blogging is not Science

Image credit: InfoThought When I wrote a post last week asking why so many people hate environmentalists , RecycleNot brought up a climate skeptic/denialist talking point I hadn’t heard in a while—that science does not work by consensus, and that argument from authority is a logical fallacy. On the face of it, it’s an attractive argument for those who don’t believe in man-made climate change, and one we heard many times when TreeHugger was inundated with ‘skeptic’ commen… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Consensus Matters II: Blogging is not Science

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