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Someone said earlier, about the question of dark matter:
"So I'm not convinced of what is 90% (at least) consensus of scientists believe to be true."
This is nonsense. I'm so tired of people using inappropriate frames for scientific arguments, whether it's Paglia or commenters on a thread. Hello, astronomy is NOT climatology. We're actually living on this planet, we have a lot more access to evidence about climate change--it's just not the same thing!
But aside from using astronomy as a poor analogy to global warming, since when is it logical in principal to assume that what the majority of trained professionals in a given field are saying is wrong? To use another frame, do you also believe that evolution is wrong, just because a vast majority of scientists believe it to be true?
Poppycock.
