People with the social-survival strategy of "stick with the pack" can't allow themselves to fathom that the pack might be wrong, that the consensus, the mainstream, could be way off base. Because it would be too disturbing to their own sense of safety. What can you believe if you can't trust the pack? Such people can never be good scientists because they are not wed to truth. They are wed to society.

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