In the introduction to Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science, Harris remarks that “the overall agreement that [scientists] achieve is amazing when compared to politics or religion or literary criticism” (1). I’m not sure on what basis this claim is made, but it’s made with such authority, and by a scientist, that on first read I simply took it to be true. But not only did I take it to be true, I took it to advance the agenda of the author – that somehow this exceptional quality of a quantitatively larger amount of agreement in the field of science meant that science was more virtuous than the other fields with which it was being compared, and by virtuous, I mean in particular, more worthy of having my trust and confidence of its truth, its credibility, its certainty of validity in its claims.
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