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David Wu: “Consensus is a political notion, not a scientific notion, thus the question deals with a political idea and is mostly…”

On the recordMarch 30, 2011
Consensus is a political notion, not a scientific notion, thus the question deals with a political idea and is mostly irrelevant to science.
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David Wu
Oregon

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Wu emphasizes that scientific consensus is not a political concept.

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