I do offer you a challenge, as I can't find it anywhere. Show me where CONSENSUS is part of the scientific method.
I've looked. I do have one caveat. If you can make it a source that is at least a decade old. As I bet there are some rewritten more recent ones you can find. I haven't found any yet, but it wouldn't surprise me.
As far as I can find CONSENSUS is not anywhere in the scientific method. I also believe the scientific method is elegant and beautiful, so I have not once been talking about FLAWS in the scientific method itself.
Wow, it's everywhere. I'd recommend The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn as a particularly good read about the scientific method. It's probably the most thorough description I've read.
Proof I was not just giving you lip service. I was sincere.
I'll check that out. It at least is from 1962 so shouldn't be polluted at all by the current political landscape.
From what I can see the steps of the scientific method are rather simple and elegant. It'll be interesting to see why someone thought they need to turn it into an entire book. Perhaps it has some methodology on how to properly develop good experiments, etc. Some experiments I think one of the trickiest things is conceiving of a good CONTROL.
I actually am going to order this from Amazon. Thank you for recommending it. All other places I've gone just looking up the scientific method... it's pretty simple, elegant, and straightforward without any mention of consensus. :)
So I look forward to this. I believe this likely will be a pretty good book anyway. So I am sincere in my thanks.
Actually I want to point out something. Everywhere is an absolute. I can state with 100% certainty it is not everywhere. I looked at a dozen different websites on the scientific method and consensus was not part of it in any of them.
Though I will check out this book when I get it.
I can say it is far from EVERYWHERE.