This happens even up to the national level, where controversial scientific results are buried rather than refuted. It's generally enough that it threatens the s

This happens even up to the national level, where controversial scientific results are buried rather than refuted. It's generally enough that it threatens the status quo in some way: - Tobacco is harmful to you. Immediate backlash from a huge industry. - Intelligence is evenly distributed across various arbitrary groups of people. Rejected by bigots, racists, etc. - Our "scientific" measures of intelligence are strongly biased towards our own culture.