I can offer you my opinion on that. I have a PhD and worked in academic research for years. I participated on many research project, including medical/clinical research. My PhD is in technical field.
I dont know what people mean when they say “scientific community”. Wast majority of scientists are very narrowly specialised. We all have areas where we are considered “expersts” and unimginably more areas where our knowledge is either superficial or equal to common knowledge. If you ask my opinion on some geological or sociological phenomenon, you likely wont get better answer than if you asked random person.
Now if a comunity of specialists, for example molecular biologist agree on somenthing, it doesnt mean its true. Their idea of what it really is will very likely be much more probable than someones who is not specialist, but it will not necessarily be true.
But wait, there is more. It gets even more complicated when it gets beyond numbers and raw data. As soon as you make a theory, you will definately find other scientists who can have a different explaination that will make as much sense and maybe even more. Doesnt mean any of you is right. I never met a fellow scientist (specialist in my field) with whom I would agree 100% on everything we researched.
So I would be very carefull about putting words like “scientific”, “community” and “consensus” together.
I do believe in research, discovering new things, finding new explanation for old things. I believe in publishing results and data, in reproducibility of results. I believe in truthful and honest diacussion. And I believe in mistakes. Because I sure as hell have made many.