{"id":1519,"date":"2023-04-08T08:21:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T08:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/08\/consensus-and-truth\/"},"modified":"2023-04-08T08:21:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T08:21:09","slug":"consensus-and-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/08\/consensus-and-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Consensus and Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Consensus is no guarantee of truth.&#0160; If all or most of the experts in some subject area agree that <em>p<\/em>, it does not follow that <em>p<\/em> is true. But that is not to say, or imply, that consensus has no bearing on truth. A consensus of unbiased and uncoerced experts in a field is a reliable guide to truth in that field, assuming that the consensus is real and not the fabrication of, say, climate hoaxers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consensus is no guarantee of truth.&#0160; If all or most of the experts in some subject area agree that p, it does not follow that p is true. But that is not to say, or imply, that consensus has no bearing on truth. A consensus of unbiased and uncoerced experts in a field is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/04\/08\/consensus-and-truth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Consensus and Truth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[380,228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distinctions","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}