Sunspot Minimum or "Is the sun going to sleep?"

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pockets

Three points:
2.) Just because their is a consensus among the scientific community doesn't necessarily mean that that consensus is correct. Bear in mind that it was once generally accepted that the world was flat and orbited by the sun.

Or, as I pointed out earlier, spontaneous generation, once accepted as pretty much law and now you can hardly find a supporter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation

To put it bluntly: Scientific knowledge can be wrong, even when the majority of scientists accept the same thing.