and of course peiser is more than just a social anthropologist he's one whose recent research has focused primarily on the social aspects of climate change and is thus at least as qualified to comment on the state of consensus as a historian regarding his study it hasn't been published in a peer reviewed journal but the results have appeared in many reliable sources in effect it should be treated no differently than as if peiser himself or any other scientist had verbally relayed the conclusions directly to a reporter literally tens of thousands of wiki articles contain such references direct quotes from scientists which appear in no other source but through the medium of a reputable reporter