Bernays would be proud.

Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man’s rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. It may seem an exaggeration to say that the American public gets most of its ideas in this wholesale fashion. The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine.

All "consensus" carries no weight. We're seeing that the way climate "science" works is how all things work. We're seeing it in medical, virology, epidemiology. And given that every time we see under the hood of any area of expertise it is a cult that freezes out anyone who disagrees with the consensus the only reasonable conclusion is that it's true in all areas.