# Reliability of common wisdom - models and power

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The post compares competing schemas for interpreting scientific consensus and dissent, using obesity and climate change as examples.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 8 December 2005
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: climate-change, science, cognition, power.

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