Unfortunately, social politics infect group dynamics, even in supposed scientific settings.
When people ask about historical scientific issues, like how did historical scientific consensus conclude the sun revolving around the earth. And it took Copernicus to right the wrongs.
Simply look at the kind of scientific shenanigans happening now, false results, outright fraud, huge reproducibility issues in scientific studies. And many scientific communities just going along with the shenanigans. Explains many things in science.
When people ask about historical scientific issues, like how did historical scientific consensus conclude the sun revolving around the earth. And it took Copernicus to right the wrongs.
Simply look at the kind of scientific shenanigans happening now, false results, outright fraud, huge reproducibility issues in scientific studies. And many scientific communities just going along with the shenanigans. Explains many things in science.