No. Consensus is not reliable at all.
Consensus can be manufactured. It's called propaganda and has been used many times to control people. With the right resources, media can be turned into a unified echo chamber that all has the same opinion and even uses the same phrases.
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” -Mark Twain
Are you thinking for yourself or following the herd?
It’s definitely easier to follow another’s lead. You don’t have to think; it’s all done for you.
The pages of The New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of the American Medical Association were once home to many tobacco advertisements. Commercials made claims like "Most doctors smoke Camels" featuring actors dressed like doctors.
Covid is another example. It's easy to convince people that there is a consensus when you block, ban and censor any research that doesn't support the desired narrative.
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The person who wrote that is self-evidently a moron, who has been indoctrinated into Marxist thinking.
A couple hundred years ago everybody agreed the earth is flat. Ummmm... Lol
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A fact is a fact and an opinion is an opinion, if people can have an argument about it then it's not a fact, a fact there's no way around it and no argument cause it's a fact.
if you made a 20 percentile on your test is it a fact that you failed? i don't know
There's a reason why there is an appeal to majority fallacy.
only facts make fact not opinions, but the internet has caused that
So if most said murder is okay, it objectively is? That’s basically what he said, what a noob
The opinion of the majority of people used to be that the world was flat, soooo...
Of course not.
He's an idiot.Majority is always wrong...
No that’s a logical fallacy. He’s lit & fig wrong.
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No. History proves that.
Didn't you ask this before?
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