[apmee]

Right. And how do we know his paper wouldn’t still have been accepted without his self-censoring?

I’m not saying I don’t believe him, or that we shouldn’t take such concerns seriously, but he could at least have acknowledged that this is effectively unfalsifiable conjecture.

[ftxbro]

Even if it would have been accepted, maybe part of his point is that at least some scientists (for example, himself) are self-censoring out of fear.