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But there is one thing that almost annoys me, one thing that is not properly understood about science and scientists: the role that CHARACTER plays in scientific discovery. It's a cultural trope of sorts that scientists are simply smart and that is why they discover things. No, that's not true. There is some good correlation, but it's not enough. You also need to have COURAGE as a scientist, because a scientist is supposed to create, discover, find something new. But the things that are most novel also are more likely to run afoul of current social tenets. If your discovery does not upset anything, chances are it's not a very noteworthy discovery.
If the current cultural climate and the decline of academia have shown anything then it is that most academics are pathetic COWARDS. Cowards do not innovate. Cowards do not create. Cowards are "bloodless", in the way Nietzsche described it. And they are exactly the kind of obsequious midwits that we are all increasingly used to seeing in academia. That chances that anyone "politically correct" innovates anything, even in a subject that should be as neutral as math (if you think that, you've never been around real mathematicians), are virtually ZERO.

Kura, Kenya, Jan te Nijenhuis, and Edward Dutton. “Why Do Northeast Asians Win So Few Nobel Prizes?” Comprehensive Psychology 4 (January 1, 2015): 04.17.CP.4.15. https://doi.org/10.2466/04.17.CP.4.15..