"I'd much prefer my policy research to be done by civil service bodies which might at least nominally be impartial." Like who, specifically? "If scientists th

"I'd much prefer my policy research to be done by civil service bodies which might at least nominally be impartial." Like who, specifically? "If scientists think that something is both true and important, then why should they not speak up about it?" Scientists agreeing about something would be a "consensus among scientists" not a "scientific consensus". The latter implies that the consensus itself is scientific, but a consensus is never scientific. The former is still problematic, because scientists are not an anointed class, but it at least assigns some agency and allows questions like "which scientists" (to which the answer is probably "whoever we found at the major universities"). But sure, speak up about the science and what you know and what you have studied. If you want to raise an alarm, do so, but don't speak on behalf of all scientists, and don't claim that the "consensus" itself is scientific.