> In order to discover merits of an argument one needs to really dig into the evidence on both sides regardless of so called consensus. One of the links in my

> In order to discover merits of an argument one needs to really dig into the evidence on both sides regardless of so called consensus. One of the links in my comment was to GENERA[1], a large database of peer reviewed GMO studies, feel free to "dig" away. > 15 years ago how all my peers and many experts in the industry said the "consensus" on building web services was to use SOAP BPEL First of all that's just generic use of the word consensus[2], not quite the same as the concept of scientific consensus[3]. Scientific consensus can certainly change over time (you wouldn't want science to just assume whatever if previously thought was right, would you?) but that doesn't mean we should dismiss the current collective judgment of scientists because they might change their position X years from now. [1] http://genera.biofortified.org/ http://genera.biofortified.org/ [2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consensus https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consensus [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus