> Luminaries like that also have their hobby horses and grievances that may color their writing If you look at specialist academic encyclopaedias (e.g. the Sta

> Luminaries like that also have their hobby horses and grievances that may color their writing If you look at specialist academic encyclopaedias (e.g. the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy), very often the article on theory X is written by one of the major proponents of theory X – because only they feel sufficiently motivated to write it, and because the editors think it is charitable to grant the proponent of a theory the opportunity to produce their best defence of it. But, they'll make sure to include coverage of the criticisms of the theory, because that's what an academic is expected to do. And the editors will make sure the article overall, and the coverage of the criticisms in particular, is fair rather than overly slanted – e.g. by recruiting one of those critics as a reviewer.