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Comment author: Lumifer 07 April 2014 04:10:13AM *  9 points [-]

This raises some disturbing implications. Namely, that it's possible for a scientific community to converge on something besides the truth.

Why is this disturbing? Look at the history of science. A scientific community "converging" on something that turns out to be not true is neither unusual nor unexpected.

in cases of disagreement which theory was correct?

Ask reality :-)

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