Comment Re:Science isn't based on opinions (Score 1) 514
Scientists trust scientists in other fields because they assume scientists have based their opinions on solid scientific evidence.
Unfortunately, they also are subject to the fundamental human bias that, when you model the behavior, you tend to base your model on what you know about yourself. Even if you know. intellectually, how dumbass a large portion of the population is, when it comes to projecting their predicted behavior, you'll be subject to this bias at some level. So for example, while a majority of scientists support more nuclear power, the majority of scientists are imagining nuclear power plants not built on disaster-prone real estate, because after all, who would do that?