Scientific consensus

Scientific consensus is the collective judgment, position, and opinion of scientists in a particular field of science at a particular time. The scientific consensus is determined by assessing the significant majority agreement of those scientists.

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Opinion - Scientist - Science

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Consensus is normally achieved through communication at conferences, the process of publication, and peer review. These lead to a situation where those within the discipline can often recognize such a consensus where it exists. In cases where there is little controversy regarding the subject under study, establishing what the consensus is can be quite straightforward. In other cases methods such as polling are used to ascertain the scientific consensus.

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Consensus - Peer review - Polling

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