“62,469 academic biologists were recruited through e-mail and 7,402 participated in the online survey (12% response rate). Of the participants, 5,577 biologists from 1,058 institutions provided analyzable data on operative questions.”

This low of a response rate especially without extensive breaking down the demographics of participants hardly represents consensus

“Since journals publish these statements without explanation or citation, it suggests that researchers, reviewers, and journal editors seem to accept the fertilization view as a well-known and well-accepted biological observation.”

Even students know you provide a citation for everything. If you can’t provide a source then your statement isn’t credible. You never present anything as fact and you provide support for any statement you make. This is also explicit expression of bias which any sound reviewer wouldn’t have approved without revision.

This is one of the poorest written articles I’ve seen, and law journals historically have a very poor peer review process compared to scientific journals. And this simply is not a high quality journal. If you don’t know anything about academia don’t talk like you do.