Broke Quote by Michael Crichton

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter…

— Michael Crichton

The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one…

— Michael Crichton

“I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard…

— Michael Crichton

Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

— Burt Rutan

Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus which is the business of politics. What is relevant is…

— Timothy R Minnich

Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

— Orson Scott Card

Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.

— Alan Stern

“The primary claim made by the IPCC and other warmists was that there was a ‘consensus’ among the world’s scientists, but anyone familiar with…

— Alan Caruba

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.

— Michael Crichton

Scientists contribute in a variety of ways and I don't think I can singular one even including [Albert] Einstein, that I can say that…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

— Michael Crichton

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good…

— Kenichi Fukui