AdamT
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97% is a hugely inflated number, unless you only count those who get published, which immensely favors those who have bought into academia's current dogma over those who dare to go against it. Anyways, no matter which position I take, there's guaranteed to be some people with advanced science degrees who disagree, so that's kind of a non-argument.
Is it so hard to accept that there might possibly be forces pushing most scientists to the wrong conclusion other than actual science? Peer pressure/groupthink, or the fact that academia in general is hugely politically left-leaning, which brings in all sorts of sampling biases, comes to mind. Anyways, to answer your question, yes, I would rather do the actual research and come to my own conclusion than just take a poll of scientists and uninformedly decide whatever they tell me must be right.
Actually it's not an inflated number at all. It was the result of a survey sent out to more than 3000 earth scientists: 97% of active climatologists agree that human activity is causing global warming : Deltoid
Unless you have a PhD or equivalent in a climate related field and you've done years of relevant study of the problem, you can't possibly do the actual research necessary to overturn the conclusions of literally thousands of published papers supporting climate change theory.
As far as any bias goes, I think you have it exactly backwards. No scientist ever made a reputation by going along with the herd.
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