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Hmm, yet many forge on ahead. If lack of consensus was lethal I'm not sure much of what we "know" about history would be accepted.

• bumby 5y ago
  Accepted isn’t necessarily the problem. Being willing to accept without acknowledging remaining uncertainty is the problem. Science is often about narrowing in on the answer, while being humble enough to acknowledge it may not be “the” answer. Most new ideas that occur at the margins of that uncertainty won’t initially be accepted, but as more data comes in that uncertainty is reduced