This is what you said: "People who rely on consensus - other people's
opinions - usually cannot
think for themselves."

So, in fact, you did discount relying on the consensus of others.

How do you propose getting the facts of a huge issue such as GW or evolution
without relying on the consensus of scientists????

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"Gilligan" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in message
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Yeah, I guess the same can be said of the theory of evolution. When the
preponderance of scientists come to consensus, we should definitely
ignore them.

Think for yourself is what I said. I didn't say discount anything because
it is a consensus. Judge things on the evidence, not opinion.


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"Gilligan" wrote in message
news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4604332.stm

Where was the consensus?

People who rely on consensus - other people's opinions - usually cannot
think for themselves.

Instead rely on basic physical laws and measurable, repeatable
experiments reduced to the fundamentals.

11th order unstable computer models are for mystics.

The brain - man's second most favorite organ - is a wonderful thing.
Make the choice to use it. Frequently!

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new
roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but
they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the
vision unborrowed, and the response they recieved-hatred. The great
creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood
alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was
opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was
considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power
loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the
men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they
paid. But they won." Ayn Rand