Absolutely! I was leaning a lot on the phrase “scientific consensus” for a reason. Science is a process and a method, not a bunch of people. It works because it is effectively smarter than the sum of the parts of the flawed humans doing said science. It’s important to focus on the consensus, because you can always find one or two people who believe things at the fringes that aren’t well supported yet and may never be. Furthermore lots of scientists believe crackpot things on their own. There are cosmologists who are Young Earth Creationists, which is about as intense as cognitive dissonance can get, but here we are. The consensus is always what matters, not any individual scientist that someone found who said a thing.
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