Probably true. But I don't think that's the sort of thing Jim is talking about in the post redlizard was quoting from; do you?
Oh. I haven't followed the link before commenting.
Now I did... and I don't really see the connection between the article and consensus. The most prominent example is how managers misunderstood the technical issues with Challenger: but that's about putting technically unsavvy managers into positions of power over engineers, not about consensus.
(I wonder if this is an example of a pattern: "Make a statement. Write an article mostly about something else, using arguments that a reader will probably agree with. At the end, a careless reader is convinced about the statement.")
Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are: