I'll charitably assume that by replication you mean something broader, e.g. scientific evidence -- you can't do replications sensu stricto in cosmology either.
You can replicate experiments. It's hard if said experiment involves say an expensive telescope, but the observation should at least be consistent with what's observed with cheaper telescopes.
(I was about to type something very similar to what Ishaan said, but about birds being (descended from) dinosaurs instead of beta decay.)
I've never heard people arguing for evolution use "the scientific consensus says evolution is true" as their main argument.
I'll charitably assume that by replication you mean something broader, e.g. scientific evidence -- you can't do replications sensu stricto in cosmology either.
Their tendency to rely heavily on appeals to authority, e.g., "the science is settled".
You can replicate experiments. It's hard if said experiment involves say an expensive telescope, but the observation should at least be consistent with what's observed with cheaper telescopes.
But the same applies if you replace “telescope” with “thermometer”, so replications in that sense are possible in climatology too! (The difference is just that the theoretical underpinnings of cosmology are much more solid than those of climatology.) You'd have a point if you said that you cannot create a new planet to test whether your climatological models are co...
People want to tell everything instead of telling the best 15 words. They want to learn everything instead of the best 15 words. In this thread, instead post the best 15-words from a book you've read recently (or anything else). It has to stand on its own. It's not a summary, the whole value needs to be contained in those words.
I'll start in the comments below.
(Voted by the Schelling study group as the best exercise of the meeting.)