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There is little, if any, penalty for being wrong. There's a substantial penalty for being right. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robin-Warren https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robin-Warren > It defied the conventional wisdom that bacteria could not survive in the highly acidic environment of the stomach, and many scientists dismissed his reports. There is some point in the process where those "many scientists" should have been prevented from doing any further peer reviews, at the very least. If you always say No, your opinion has no value.