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Letter: If 95 percent of scientists agree, we can call that a consensus
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Responding to another letter in the Times on climate change, May 30: “Consensus on climate wrongly assumes scientist are always right,” I don’t know where to begin. First of all, science doesn’t deal with right or wrong. It deals in facts that can be substantiated as opposed to those that can’t. A degree of scientific “consensus,” is reached when that verification reaches 95 percent. That’s a pretty high bar.