“news outlets do a poor job informing the public about the #ScientificConsensus on hot-button issues such as #vaccination, #NuclearPower and #GeneticallyModifiedFoods — even when it’s directly relevant to their coverage.” https://noc.social/@CaulfieldTim/110923474182533536

#TheSwirl: a condition in which certainty is continually contested, divided, and multiplied. #Monsanto has funded agroscience departments and #research institutes and the #agrochemical #industry has blurred “the lines between reliable and biased #science” in such a way that “makes it impossible to either discredit or believe the #ScientificConsensus” on #glyphosates like #Roundup.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/monsanto-and-the-battle-over-scientific-consensus/

#TheSwirl: a condition in which certainty is continually contested, divided, and multiplied. Monsanto has funded agroscience departments and #research institutes and the #agrochemical #industry has blurred “the lines between reliable and biased #science” in such a way that “makes it impossible to either discredit or believe the #ScientificConsensus”.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/monsanto-and-the-battle-over-scientific-consensus/

Agree with this author: it's maddening.

‘Both-Sidesing the Climate Story’
#ColumbiaJournalismReview #KylePope
#ClimateJustice #ClimateChange

“It is maddening that, this far into the #ClimateCrisis, #news outlets continue to dither as to whether a single #weather event is related to the now-undeniable, violent changes in Earth’s weather. …

“The overwhelming #ScientificConsensus is that Earth is #warming, that man-made causes are to blame, and that one result is more extreme weather precisely like what we’ve seen this week on the #WestCoast. And yet the search for definitive causation—for hard proof that global shifts in climate produced a single event in one corner of one town—has become an odious tendency among journalists looking to create tension when there is none.”

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/california_storms_climate_crisis_eric_sorensen.php

@StrassenKatze There was a long scientific debate since the mid-1800s about the origins of #birds — whether they came from #dinosaurs or not. The scientific consensus that birds are dinosaurs only came about around 2011!

#evolution #ScientificConsensus
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bird_evolution

#scientificconsensus that #conversiontherapy is ineffective at changing a person's #sexualorientation or #genderidentity and that it frequently causes significant, long-term #psychologicalharm in individuals who undergo it.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Conversion_therapy

If 97 engineers told you that driving across a new bridge would result in the bridge's collapse and your death, would you follow the advice of the other 3? If you deny #scientificconsensus in favor of fringe science, you are doing just that. The fringe science may be correct, but don't rush to judgement and trust the #scientificmethod that has worked for hundreds of years.

Thanks to @neiltyson for this clear analogy of mainstream vs fringe #science

There are different ways of countering #misinformation. If there is a high level of general agreement among experts on societally contested issues (e.g. whether COVID19 is caused by 5G) then communicating this #scientificconsensus can help realign public views with #expertopinion

Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature
#scientificConsensus #ClimateChange #science
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2966

I usually say that there are four riders of the antiscience apocalypse - antievolucionism, rejection of the #scientificconsensus on #climatechange, anti-GMO and anti-vaccine movement. The latter, "antivaxxers", has devastating consequences.
https://quantumofjk.blogspot.com/2019/07/what-is-antivaxx-movement.html