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An interdisciplinary field that examines how consensus is formed in scientific and academic communities: the social processes, power dynamics, publication practices, and institutional structures that produce agreement. It goes beyond the idealized image of scientists reaching consensus through pure reason, exploring the real‑world mechanisms—conferences, peer review, funding networks—that shape what counts as “settled science.” It also studies cases where consensus was wrong, and how dissent is handled.
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