A scientific consensus can still rest on a misleading historical inheritance

Evidence

How can it be? There are thousands of highly trained scientists in hundreds of laboratories around the world who have produced countless scientific papers about exactly this. They can’t all be “wrong”! Well, in the last section we laid out the very particular history that has bequeathed this kind of attention-thinking to us. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 168

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Presenting scientific consensus reduces rather than triggers partisan backfire — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 142; Scholarly consensus can fix on the weaker of two causal factors — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts: A User’s Guide, 1401; Positivism distorts science by hiding its constitutive interests and historical origins — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 606
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Presenting scientific consensus reduces rather than triggers partisan backfire — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 142; Scholarly consensus can fix on the weaker of two causal factors — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts: A User’s Guide, 1401; Positivism distorts science by hiding its constitutive interests and historical origins — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 606