Comment by thaumasiotes

> Thus, things that have consensus are things that are going to be silent in literature if you search for it.

Not really; generally consensus ideas will be mentioned in passing while discussing something else. You can get a strong sense of the consensus that way.

For example, I bought several textbooks on early Mesopotamian history, which taught me that Marxism enjoys a strong consensus in that field. And it's not even relevant to the field!