From Sabine Hossenfelder.

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A group of philosophers and sociologists have come up with the idea to regularly poll scientists in order to establish and maintain a “scientific consensus.” While this might sound plausible, it’s a terrible idea. Here’s why.

Paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0313541

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