The Indiana Jones hat worn at an indoor lecture clearly is a self-promotion device, however, if we didn’t have people in science willing to buck convention and say things they knew were going to be unpopular with their colleagues, we wouldn’t have quantum entanglement, continental drift, germ theory, genetic inheritance, Avogadro’s Law. heavenly bodies with elliptical orbits, or a heliocentric solar system (among others).
I don’t agree with you at all.
Your analogy does not reflect the different types of science.
One hard.
Avogadro’s number, Mendelian inheritance had nothing to do with self promotion or controversy.
They exist because they are inherent physical properties.