I don't think any of that applies to what I'm talking about. I'm talking about scientific consensus, not what foods cause cancer but does smoking cause cancer. Not what medical procedure is best, but do vaccines work.
Some 97% of scientists agree climate change is caused by man, but we allow the person in the highest position in the land to disbelieve that. To make decisions for 330M people based on false beliefs that everyone knows are false.
And when he's out of office, we'll be sitting around waiting for the next Trump-like person to get elected. We have to do something, if not this, something better. Yes there's a ton of science that's speculative and gets overturned, but we now a shit-ton of things for sure, about math, statistics, probability, physical, chemistry, biology, we know a lot that's not getting overturned. The third law of thermodynamics is not getting overturned.
"Wrong: Why experts* keep failing us--and how to know when not to trust them" by David H. Freedman
https://www.amazon.com/Wrong-us-Scientists-relationship-cons...
to see why. Experts and expert organizations, scientific or otherwise, often provide wisdom about all aspects of life - and all wrong!
The Covid pandemic proves this point: we can't get agreement on most anything. We'd do better to shitcan the CDC and most other academic and governmental institutions, forget about WHO and start all over again but with an eye to our failed past.
Sure would save a lot of money too, even though it would put a multitude of incompetents onto the streets looking for jobs.