Aiming to be unpopular might be worse than aiming to be popular. What I meant was that if one is concerned about truth, they need not be so fixated on what thei

Aiming to be unpopular might be worse than aiming to be popular. What I meant was that if one is concerned about truth, they need not be so fixated on what their peers or the status quo thinks. I was thinking about examples where corners are cut such as data being shaped to fit conclusions. Maybe replication crises don't hinder scientific progress as much as I think they do, but things do get lost in the noise, considering what has been rediscovered.