It's not just scientists. It's most fields and most opinions that don't agree with whatever the cause of the day is. I deleted my twitter account over a year a

It's not just scientists. It's most fields and most opinions that don't agree with whatever the cause of the day is. I deleted my twitter account over a year ago (after ten years of it), and stopped using twitter. However, I still refrain from saying what I actually think about an issue online now. It doesn't matter if it's a left wing or right wing opinion, nor does it matter what the issue is. If you fall afoul of the online activists (regardless of left-wing or right-wing) it can suck up all your time and energy and ruin you. The big problem is that it's easy to publicly shame and silence someone, with little to no consequence for doing so. And I place most of the blame here on Twitter.