Consensus

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome. Cohesiveness, or the desire for cohesiveness, in a group may produce a tendency among its members to agree at all costs. This causes the group to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation.

collective judgment, position, and opinion of the community of scientists in a particular field of study

group decision-making aiming for universal agreement

attributional type of cognitive bias whereby people tend to overestimate the extent to which their own opinions, beliefs, preferences, values, and habits are normal and typical of those of others

evaluation of climate change by the scientific community

statement widely known to be true

truth as determined by consensus rather than or before other criteria

expression

term as used in Medicine