>It’s better to say I think the authors should have thought about X rather the author is a moron and incompetent for not doing X. It is probably less being a m

>It’s better to say I think the authors should have thought about X rather the author is a moron and incompetent for not doing X. It is probably less being a moron or incompetent than having an agenda would be the likely complaint ... depending on the subject matter that is. I suspect this is much more of a problem is social sciences than, say, pure mathematics.