Conformity is everything. Failure to conform is a crime punishable by shunning and stripping of professional credentials.
Ask college professors everywhere who have been stripped of their tenure and summarily dismissed from staff, their previous contributions notwithstanding, and those contributions removed from the literature and denied.
“Conformity is everything. Failure to conform is a crime punishable by shunning and stripping of professional credentials.”
And public humiliation and threats of violence.
This started with evolution. Anyone who questions it loses their credentials and must conform to get a PHD.