I think I'm going to continue disagreeing with you on this point, but I will point out that our difference of opinion is a semantic one. To say that everyone "

I think I'm going to continue disagreeing with you on this point, but I will point out that our difference of opinion is a semantic one. To say that everyone "believes in" a model could mean that everyone accepts it as plausible (and thus worthy of further exploration), or it could mean that everyone is justifiably certain that it maps properly to a real phenomenon. I never say that something is "consensus" in the first case: IMO, the term should be reserved for the latter case, or appropriately qualified. In any case, the situation you describe appears to lack meaningful triangulation. [1] [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01023-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01023-3