Translation from scientist to normal person speak: We honestly have no fucking idea.
Sometimes, even scientists don't know what's going on. At times like that they tend to act like everyone else, which is that they assume the most popular idea must be correct. Unfortunately, this is sophistry, not science.
Sometimes, even scientists don't know what's going on. At times like that they tend to act like everyone else, which is that they assume the most popular idea must be correct. Unfortunately, this is sophistry, not science.
Dr John Snow, I am tired of your incessant prattling about Cholera being a water-born disease! There is a scientific consensus that it is spread by a miasma and that is final!
by Korgmeister March 21, 2005
Scientific Consensus Totalitarianism, also Scientific Consensus Authoritarianism or Scientific Consensus Dictatorship, is a political and anti-scientistic stance where the scientific consensus, as the way it exists today, is a form of totalitarianism and that seeks to eliminate any other opposite view to it and that also promotes scientism, anti-theism, physicalism and new atheism as well. The Scientific consensus totalitarianism concept was not created as a way to deny the climate change or the shape of Earth, but more as a way to criticize the several attacks scientific community usually do to religion, spirituality, supernaturality, astrality, afterlife, mediumship, extraphysics, multiverses, post-empiricism and all other themes related or derived from those, and it also seeks as a way to alert people and open-minded scientists, thinkers and philosophers to protectt themselves from the scientism, physicalism and anti-theism that are promoted inside science.
"Scientific consensus totalitarianism shows so well how can science be totalitarian and how powerful science is nowadays, that's the why we shall be careful with the promotion of scientism and physicalism inside science and how opened we should be to new ideas and new concepts and how the scientific consensus should be more open-minded and less authoritarian, mainly about spiritual and extraphysical things."
by Full Monteirism April 16, 2021