Sentences with phrase «accepted the consensus based»

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The easy assumption that the Church was just as it should be was never universally accepted, but central and western European society, «Christendom», had come to be based on a majority consensus that it was.

I have looked at Quackwatch and it is quite apparent to me that Stephen Barrett's knowledge base would be in tune with medical and nutrition consensus from 50 years ago.In other words, woefully outdated.To give one example, Dr Robert Lustig's research linking fructose consumption to obesity has been universally accepted by the medical profession and nutritionists.It is quite evident he had not eve heard of such research.

Instead I've been «agnostic» about it, usually saying that I accept the consensus (based on my limited knowledge), and also refer people to your website.

A responsible skeptic will request that you remain open minded to opinions from both sides, and consider the uncertainties involved * without * prejudging them based on the demonstrable human predilection toward a «herd mentality» — by «herd mentality», I mean that once a consensus is formed, a flock of «me too» science papers become much more easily accepted, by peer review journals, than the skeptics» papers.

But sometimes consensus just means that there is a consensus of skeptics (e.g., Wegener's theory of continental drift was proposed in 1912 based on continent shapes but was not widely accepted until 50 years later because the smoking gun — deep sea rifts — hadn't been discovered) or there is consensus because the data is overwhelming (e.g., descent with modification).

Specifically, instead of accepting the consensus as the result of researchers independently converging on the same evidence - based view, it can be explained via the idea of a complex and secretive conspiracy among researchers.

What's your basis for not accepting the scientific consensus?

«Scientific knowledge is the intellectual and social consensus of affiliated experts based on the weight of available empirical evidence, and evaluated according to accepted methodologies.

The structure of Ripple's system is based upon a consensus ledger, a distributed open source protocol, and its globally accepted cryptocurrency XRP.