consensus (noun) - general agreement, accepted opinion, or widespread accord among the members of a group or community [kuhn-sen-suhs]
BREAKDOWN: CON- (with) + SENS- (to feel or think) + -US (state)
“Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results... If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.” —Michael Crichton
