This is why the tin-foil-hat crowd is so hard to deal with. Any denial of a conspiracy of silence is taken as evidence that such a conspiracy exists. Lack of evidence of a conspiracy only shows that the conspiracy is very powerful.
I don't really resent that -- I use specially prepared copper foil which reflects negative vibrations of all kinds -- but I do think such comments reflect an incomplete view of the modern world. At the risk of having Phaedrus think even less of me, I want to make a fast comment about "conspiracies" in general.
Have you ever noticed that the same face will appear on the cover of many different magazines during the same month? Even though the magazines come from different publishers, even though the magazines have lead times ranging from a few months to many, many months, and even though the magazines may have completely different target audiences, they still manage very often to get the same face on the cover during the same month.
Random chance? Hardly.
Conspiracy? Not exactly...
It's just a bunch of people working together to accomplish something.
Advertising specialists and public relations specialists and media specialists routinely work months and even years in advance to co-ordinate a zillion different components of promoting a star or a movie or a message. That's what such people do.
It's not a conspiracy, per se. But anybody who doesn't know modern terminology would be excused from slipping up and calling it one.
There's no reason to think that "modern POP science" is any different.
It's a bunch of people who basically live in the media, revolve around half a dozen or so publishers, and get a heck of a lot of funding from a relatively small number of money sources which all have rather defined agendas.
Conspiracy? Not per se. Just people living in the modern world. A world of media specialists who work together to promote a consistent message (and discourage discordant notes).
Mark W.