> Scientific consensus is built up around a body work Yes, and that process is supposed to include judging the merit of the individual studies that make up the

> Scientific consensus is built up around a body work Yes, and that process is supposed to include judging the merit of the individual studies that make up the body of work. A hundred shoddy papers don't make a convincing body of work all of a sudden, they make a pile of inconclusive trash. I'm not disagreeing with the consensus you point at, I wouldn't know, but you can't use "consensus arises from a body of work" to argue inclusion of anything in that body of work.