Scientific consensus | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-01-11

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00:01:45 1 Change of consensus over time
00:05:05 2 Perception and public opinion
00:05:34 3 Politicization of science
00:10:56 4 See also
00:11:24 5 Notes



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SUMMARY
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Scientific consensus is the collective judgment, position, and opinion of the community of scientists in a particular field of study. Consensus implies general agreement, though not necessarily unanimity.Consensus is normally achieved through communication  at conferences, the  publication process, replication (reproducible results by others), and peer review. These lead to a situation in which those within the discipline can often recognize such a consensus where it exists, but communicating to outsiders that consensus has been reached can be difficult, because the 'normal' debates through which science progresses may seem to outsiders as contestation. On occasion, scientific institutes issue position statements intended to communicate a summary of the science from the "inside" to the "outside" of the scientific community. In cases where there is little controversy regarding the subject under study, establishing what the consensus is can be quite straightforward.
Scientific consensus may be invoked in popular or political debate on subjects that are controversial within the public sphere but which may not be controversial within the scientific community, such as evolution, climate change, or the lack of a link between MMR vaccinations and autism.