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Old Jun 6th, 2007, 10:59 AM       
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No, it's just a belief that the most recent international committee on the subject deemed to have 95% certainty.
The Ptolemaic system used to be believed internationally with better than 95% certainty. More recently, it was believed with better than 95% certainty that human flight was impossible. The scientific establishment, in this time no less than in any other, is not infallible to the point where you can blithely use its consensus to end an argument.
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