Science’s trustworthiness rests on being intersubjective and collective

Evidence

If someone is a scientist and has an opinion, that is not science. Science is intersubjective, greater than what any one person can do. That increases the reliability, the weight of scientific knowledge extremely. Science is greater than any one of us and as such is trustworthy. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 748

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A compact statement of the epistemic foundation of scientific authority — the single-opinion-vs-collective-net distinction is dense and worth sitting with.
• XREF: connects to: The people’s consensus and scientific consensus are the same legitimation model — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 251; Research funding subordinates truth to the goal of performativity — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 342; Wealth determines which scientific claims can be verified as true — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 336 (+5 more)

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