They have said that the entire scientific community — individual scientists, scientific institutions, and the IPCC — were vulnerable to the «meme», whereas only the historian of science and the psychologist were immune to its propagation through the very community that both Oreskes and Lewandowsky claim has produced a robust,
unimpeachable consensus.
But the idea of a rigid, unequivocal,
unimpeachable consensus needs to be sustained, as does the ideas that the scientific consensus reduces to a simple and robust statement, and that the consensus is contradicted in its entirety by «deniers».
Not exact matches
In my view there will not be a paradigm shift, a new general
consensus, until at least several
unimpeachable, new and comparable sites join Meadowcroft and Monte Verde.
Dessler's wish to maintain that the IPCC comprises
unimpeachable experts in their field mirrors the common desire to create an unassailable scientific
consensus that political changes in the world are a necessity.