There won't ever be a consensus of experts. That whole concept is one I've really come to hate over the years. When it comes to decisions about what to do, vers

There won't ever be a consensus of experts. That whole concept is one I've really come to hate over the years. When it comes to decisions about what to do, versus the outcome of replicable experiments on nature in lab conditions, there is always disagreement and there always will be. The idea that any decision can be resolved by a bunch of scientists sitting in a committee beard stroking doesn't reflect how people really work. Amongst other problems, the term "expert" is ill defined (see discussion above about mathematicians) and there's always value in contrarianism for people who aren't directly making decisions. If they're wrong nobody will remember and there's nearly no reputational impact. If they're right, they can win fame and glory.