One receives grants for doing new research and writing papers about that research. There's no financial incentive for reviewing the existing body of work, and since one needs money to eat, guess what doesn't get done?
It's basically a case of lots of people are talking and few of them are listening. It's understandable that a lot of trash talk gets ignored.
It's basically a case of lots of people are talking and few of them are listening. It's understandable that a lot of trash talk gets ignored.