Delirium wrote:
No, I can say quite confidently, as a scientist active in academic publishing, that when reviewing a field (which is what encyclopedia articles are), science works on consensus, unless you are specifically writing a "critical review" unapologetically from a particular point of view.
Maybe that your field of expertise works by consensus, mine does not (and honestly, students who think that science works by consensus need to retake philosophy-of-science 101). Consensus is not the same as agreement, and if a topic is really well explored, there might be general agreement among scientists on that topic.
Kim