Comment by adev_

> 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.