As to the «scientific consensus», Mann and his hockey stick have been called «scanty», «
sloppy», «sh*tty», «rubbish», «a disgrace to the profession», «dubious», «invalidated» and «
just bad
science» by his fellow scientists, including the climatologist who came up with the term «global warming» back in the Seventies.
One possible candidate would be not
just the use of terms like «settled
science,» but the use of goofy definitions of those terms followed by doing a
sloppy job in applying those definitions, e.g., sloppiness in nose - counting when applying a goofy nose - counting definition of settled
science.