It's true that some people think peer review, at its glacial pace and with its bias towards the existing consensus, works to actively repress new ideas that are challenging to received opinion.
A number of patients are willing to opt for proposed displacement, while others opt for the least time-consuming treatment, namely chemotherapy, despite the existing scientific consensus that advocates the combined treatment.
Existing consensus guidelines broadly endorse proposed shifts away from a single focus on treatment of psychological symptoms to contextually appropriate multi-layered systems of support that build on existing resources.
The existing consensus is that deception may be used as a last resort when there is no alternative to not using it in order to obtain required data of a methodologically rigorous standard.
Carswell: There will be ferocious debate, but I think the important thing to recognise is there is not the consensus that is often portrayed as existing.
But given the deteriorating economic climate, there is a fairly broad consensus that existing provisions will not cover potential losses.
Although each model has one or more elements recognized as being present in human vulnerable plaque, it is the general consensus that existing animal models do not adequately represent human vulnerable plaque (Finn et al., 2010).
There is general recognition of the need for collective action on shared health challenges, especially given the exigencies of globalisation, and consensus that existing institutional arrangements currently fall short.
Among Democrats and Republicans alike, there is a growing consensus that the existing regulatory structure, involving more than half a dozen federal agencies as well state offices, were not equipped to prevent a host of questionable practices that aggravated the housing and mortgage meltdowns.
