re: Have you ever wondered where that "97% of all scientists" assertion came from?

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Are you attacking the methods used or the fact that it was in a master's thesis?

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Both are pretty sketchy.

I mean 97% of all statistics are made up on the spot 84% of the time.

There was some speaker on this subject awhile ago...and basically said:

"if 97% of scientists agree on something...(if even true) doesn't make the point fact. Some of our greatest discoveries and breakthroughs have been the few or 1% or lone wolf which dissents and finds the truth."

"Promulgating that almost all scientists agree on something and therefore it must be true...isn't science...it's theology...and what's worse is the misguided thinking that high % claims makes the assertion fact."

Science isn't "did you like that movie, Rotten Tomatoes, consensus."

High percentage points supposedly like 97% don't further the argument as fact but show more a tendency to silence science because of dogma.

Most real science has a more even amount of dissenters, pros and cons, for and against...than wild numbers like 97%. That's a sign of stifling science and contrary views...not endorsing the majority to the level of fact.