Anecdotally, there are cartels of authors that fail to be sufficiently critical in the literature. This is undisputed. However, quite a large (sometime overwh

Anecdotally, there are cartels of authors that fail to be sufficiently critical in the literature. This is undisputed. However, quite a large (sometime overwhelming) amount of criticism and scientific conflict operates in the daily practice and presentation of science that occurs outside the formal literature. Within the primary literature, variation in results or technical questions about methods are often not cited in a manner that is overtly "negative" from the perspective of a field outsider, but those in the field will understand and recognize the conflicts. These inconsistencies or disagreements in results are most often made explicit in review articles. A broad analysis of this sort is unlikely to grasp these kinds of subtleties in scientific practice.