[lamontcg]

But people who are motivated by a decade or two of having their salaries paid by the leading hypothesis aren't going to produce unified kool-aid drinker kinds of rationales to support it. They've had decades to internalize the arguments and they will be nuanced and multifaceted. They're experts and their defense of the old paradigm will look just like expert opinion. There can still be rotten core foundations at the bottom of it all.

[mwt]

I'm not claiming there are no overly stubborn PIs. But we should not be lazy and paint so a brush that we view the field as a monolith.

[lamontcg]

Nobody is actually arguing that everyone in the field is goosestepping in perfect synchrony like a cartoon.

But human bias applied by groups is actually very powerful.