Democracy and Truth

http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2012/09/the-winners-of-the-3qd-philosophy-prize-2012.html

http://www.philosophersbeard.org/2010/11/democracy-is-not-truth-machine.html

"Rational truths are those established by chains of human reasoning that can in principle be replicated by others. Like Euclid's geometry. Science is an archetypal form of rational truth seeking since its authority depends on such replication: that one will always get the same result in the same experiment because the result doesn't depend on who the scientists are, but on the independently existing world. That means for example that if all the climate scientists in the world were wiped out by a freak meteor at a conference, climate science would quickly reappear and say basically the same things again (as more or less happened when the Catholic Church tried to suppress heliocentricism)."