The word "consensus" by itself doesn't prove something is true.I always find the double standard interesting, Covid was a fabrication, people were not dying, there was no pandemic and everyone suddenly became a doctor or virologist.
Always like the appeal to "consensus" which has become quite meaningless over time because of the very things Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote about.
History is full of moments where the majority got things wrong.
My point wasn't that a claim is true because a lot of people agree with it.
It was that conclusions should ultimately stand or fall on the evidence, not on who is promoting them.
I actually think Bonhoeffer's warnings are relevant here.
One of the dangers he identified was becoming captive to a narrative, whether it's the mainstream narrative or the alternative one.
That's why I try to ask the same question of every position: "What evidence would cause me to change my mind?"
If I can't answer that, then I may have stopped investigating and started defending.
For me, that's the real challenge.
Not whether a view is popular or unpopular, but whether I'm still willing to follow the evidence if it takes me somewhere I wasn't expecting.

