Washing machine? That's heading over the cliff...

I will agree that the woman in the audience missed the point made off camera that "the washing machine was more important than the birth control pill." She was taking her washing machine for granted. But I do agree with her sentiments that the relative importance of either one depends on your own needs and wants. Personally, I vote for the washing machine. See here: https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_roslin...
(You can limit conception many ways. Washing clothes is less amenable to primitive improvements. It took the industrial revolution.)

I almost voted this down as spam because the woman at the table committed a common error and then continued to engage in an uncommon error. Her main point is broadly correct: science is not democratic. However, that Orwellian passphrase ignores much. It is a common failing of the common education that we all decry in others that we learned to express truths as dictionary definitions, or as "sound bites."

In fact, science does proceed by consensus. It takes a while for deep new truths to be accepted. If you have not read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn, then you are missing a piece of your general science education. I confess that I have not read it many years, so I am not clear on whether this is an example from that, but we all know Ohm's Law. It is taught as obvious by simple measurement. Children learn it. But it was rejected when first offered, not in Galileo's day, but in 1827.
"When Ohm first published his work, this was not the case; critics reacted to his treatment of the subject with hostility. They called his work a "web of naked fancies"[10] and the German Minister of Education proclaimed that "a professor who preached such heresies was unworthy to teach science."[11] " -- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohm%27s...

Finally, the woman at the table betrayed her ignorance with the nonsense about "everyone thought the Earth was flat until one man..." No. Yes, the Earth is obviously flat to our common experience. Yes, the sky is "bowl" over the "flat" Earth, as best we figured 3000 years ago. However, by consensus, by 400 BCE the Greeks who cared about it pretty much agreed that evidence and logic (reality + reason = objectivity) lead to the conclusion that the Earth is a sphere. ... but of course they were wrong... It is an oblate spheroid (if you care). And the Earth does not "go around the Sun." That, too, is erroneous. The entire solar system (including the Sun) orbits a common and changing barycenter or centroid -- as if that matters when you drive from Alexandria to Memphis.

And climate change is real. Just ask the dinosaurs. And human activity does affect the weather: cities are warmer than the open land around them. Whatever else may be true seems open to debate and discovery.

Excellent video. "science is truth" I would never have believed that needed to be said

But the climate science does.