This seems like bs to me. Imagine the investigators of the space shuttle failure or any aeroplane crash behaving like this. After all it reflects badly on the a

This seems like bs to me. Imagine the investigators of the space shuttle failure or any aeroplane crash behaving like this. After all it reflects badly on the aeronautical engineering profession! No, it reflects badly on your profession if you don't do your job properly. And I bet most scientists and virologosts understand this.