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Comment author: TimS 15 February 2013 04:54:06AM 0 points [-]

I was talking about community consensus, not whatever nonsense is being spouted by the man-on-the-street.

As you noted, the belief of the average person is seldom a reliable indicator (our even all that coherent). That's why we don't measure a society's scientific knowledge that way.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 15 February 2013 04:56:36AM 1 point [-]

I was talking about community consensus, not whatever nonsense is being spouted by the man-on-the-street.

Ok, my point still stands.