It is sufficiently different to piss you off at first, but it’s a really good read.

I read it every couple of years. Such a good read.

Isn’t it the case that “consensus” in the sciences is just a shorthand for “we agree that this is most likely to be true”?

If I were conversing with a scientist and I asked about possibility x, and they disagreed with it for the reason that “the consensus is…”, I would assume that they are not saying possibility x is wrong, but rather that they would need really good evidence to agree that x is correct.

I’d do a film version of the Illuminatus! Trilogy across 5 films, and make it feel as epic as the Odyssey or Ben Hur… really old school.