New Age 'Science'

Welcome to our brave new world's definition of science:

"It appears that the only science that now counts is of the postmodern variety—which is to say the “science” of the IPCC, in which consensus opinion (a scientific abhorrence), statistical chicanery and computer fantasising dominate over traditional empirical analysis." (Bob Carter)

This Post Modern obsession with consensus is beginning to affect every aspect of our existence and not in a good way. Where has individual responsibility gone?
I am all for agreement reached after intelligent discussion but pressure to conform because of 'majority opinion' is manipulative and smacks of argumentation by authority.
I believe political correctness is the method by which the new POMO political 'commissars' are promoting their consensus philosophy. They humiliate, intimidate and manipulate with the intention of achieving what  Theodore Dalrymple articulates as:

When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies,
or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for
all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”

The media, much of academia and many in politics are promoters of this new approach...think of Oakeshotts 'new paradigm', and the radical programs behind the Greens.
Incidentally, Lemmings are really good at consensus action.