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Christopher Booker, writing in the UK Telegraph, examines the flip side of ‘consensus’: Some time back, a reader drew my attention to the book in which, 40 years ago, a Yale professor of psychology, Irving Janis,...

In groupthink, organizations value consensus more than free thought. The emphasis on consensus leads to group polarization, in which a group’s positions become more extreme than any individual would come up with. Alarmist...