"But the main point was that your lengthy post really amounted to relying on consensus science.....and that is not scientific, it is following the herd."

"Consensus science" - another 'straw man', Pete! Do you expect every scientist to disagree with every other scientist? Every human endeavour that I can think advances through consensus, you prick! Even fundamentalist, religious maniacs, like you and your creationist chums, agree on the details of the nonsense that you and they spout. And how dare you characterise members of the scientific community as "the herd" - you arrogant, ignorant, brain-washed dullard!