"It's almost as if scientists enjoy leaving out critical details from the methods section, and other scientists enjoy puzzling out what the missing details are."
From my experience, at least in horticulture, scientists leave out a few methods because there's some sort of potential patent or marketing process in the works and they don't want to reveal too much and be beaten to the punch.
From my experience, at least in horticulture, scientists leave out a few methods because there's some sort of potential patent or marketing process in the works and they don't want to reveal too much and be beaten to the punch.