alt Hacker NewsScience is not based on consensus seeking.
Science is about coming up with the best explanations irrespective of whether or not a large chunk does not believe it.
And best explanations are the ones that is hard to vary. Not the one that is most widely accepted or easy to accept based on the current world view.
> Science is not based on consensus seeking.
No, but as non-experts in a given field, the best information we have to go on is the consensus among scientists who are experts in the field.
Certainly this isn't a perfect metric, and consensus-smashing evidence sometimes comes to light, but unless and until that happens, we should assume that the people who study this sort of thing as their life's work are probably more correct than we are.