“Surgeons and Engineers can be some arrogant bastages.”
They need to be. My daughter was an engineer at a nuclear power plant. You need people to stand up and push back to make sure the right thing gets done.
There should have been more arrogant and bastard behavior by engineers when Challenger blew up. They might have prevented the disaster.
The Challenger disaster resulted from a string of bad decisions, originating right at the top of NASA. I took a class where I had to study the events and circumstances leading up to the disaster, and wanted to link some of the reading material but I cannot find it. I recall that the engineer Roger Boisjoly tried to prevent the launch, but was overruled. He later testified to Congress about the disaster, and became a pariah to the point of losing his job for speaking up. His neighbors and coworkers would have nothing to do with him.
Given the strong political pressures to push ahead with the launch, the engineers who saw the problem with the O-ring integrity in cold temperatures could not prevail.