While indirectly equivalent, I think the far worse side of the coin than "strengthening dogmatic ideas" is shooting down ideas that run contrary to dogma, preci

While indirectly equivalent, I think the far worse side of the coin than "strengthening dogmatic ideas" is shooting down ideas that run contrary to dogma, precisely because they run contrary to dogma. There are some great examples in science, like relativity, where basically everybody just tossed aside the old and embraced the new. But those are absolutely the exception, rather than the rule. There's a reason no less than Max Planck remarked that, "Science progresses one funeral at a time."