I didn't object so much to the "consensus" claims of a small group of grant-baited "scientists". Dangle enough money, and you can always lure a batch of humans to climb onto your wagon.
Their problem is that they don't have the honesty to admit that they are but a tiny subset of the set of ALL scientists. The fleas don't speak for the dog!
But, where they really blew it was when they called their 'science' "settled".
As illustratged by your #2, science is never "settled"!!!
That is what makes science so much fun! There is always better data to be acquired and new discoveries to be made. When science is "settled", I will give up being a scientist!
Exactly, and I agree with you 100%. I think that my word “frustration” reflects the fact that I didn’t want to stay in academia. I wanted some sort of “settled” product to come out of my work. So I went into industrial chemistry.
In any case I still like sitting in on my chem prof brother’s student seminars to remind me of how glad I was to make the decision.