Math and hard science have political and cultural biases and inertia as well. At a minimum, hard science is still manipulated by justifying funding. And then t

Math and hard science have political and cultural biases and inertia as well. At a minimum, hard science is still manipulated by justifying funding. And then there's this: https://esoterx.com/2014/12/03/murder-by-math-the-irrational-demise-of-hippasus/ https://esoterx.com/2014/12/03/murder-by-math-the-irrational... There was institutional pushback on Godel's incompleteness from the axiomatic mathematicians that thought they could prove everything as they reconstructed math from axioms (if I understand that). From what I recall reading the axiomatic reconstruction was basically a huge industry of mathematical work, and suddenly some pissant young guy shows up and says "yeah, that not going to end the way you hope". The mechanism of tenure alone will lead to political grandstanding. If your research is borderline on tenure but some other research completely undermines it, that is millions of lifetime dollars on the line. See: MOND vs Dark Matter, string theory, etc.