"consensus" means a general agreement or shared opinion among a group of people. It is when everyone in the group agrees on a decision or idea. Full definition
I believe it is the general concensus of scholars who do serious work at determining when the gospels and other New Testament books were written were written many decades after Jesus died. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
1) How couild Michel possibly know that there was a scientific concensus on any particular theory by his definition? (skepticalscience.com)
It is important to address this issue of scientific concensus and look at this analogy to ulcers. (realclimate.org)