among prominent contrarians on scientific consensus

Because "scientific consensus", like "conspiracy theory", is a bullshit term invented to shut off analytical thought.

Consensus is a MARKETING word. Follow the money.

Science itself doesn't give a slippery shit about what "most scientists" say.

It relentlessly challenges the status quo, ever seeking to poke holes in sacred-cow theories and to disprove hypotheses.

Science is never settled. There is never and will never be a consensus. If fifty thousand scientists say humans control the earth's weather instead of the sun and oceans, then fifty thousand scientists are wrong (and probably lying to get rich).

"among prominent contrarians on scientific consensus"

Because "scientific consensus", like "conspiracy theory", is a bullshit term invented to shut off analytical thought.

Consensus is a MARKETING word. Follow the money.

Science itself doesn't give a slippery shit about what "most scientists" say.

It relentlessly challenges the status quo, ever seeking to poke holes in sacred-cow theories and to disprove hypotheses.

Science is never settled. There is never and will never be a consensus. If fifty thousand scientists say humans control the earth's weather instead of the sun and oceans, then fifty thousand scientists are wrong (and probably lying to get rich).