> Then, some topics becoming political taboo where the unorthodox opinion would get you fired and canceled This is garbage. What you describe might be the ca

> Then, some topics becoming political taboo where the unorthodox opinion would get you fired and canceled This is garbage. What you describe might be the case in some social-sciences circles but never has been the case in most STEMs fields. If you have a (sensical) unorthodox idea that displease a research director, 10 other research directors will be very happy to dig up this exact idea in a slightly different context. This is how sciences progress.