Either data supports the observations or they don't. Voting doesn't work in science.

Science doesn't work by voting. Did people vote on the theory of relativity? No! It's either right or it's wrong. Do we vote on whether genetics is a good theory or not? Of course not.

Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.

I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.

A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their attributes, not what they're next to.

The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.