<i>Yes. The search for scientific truth shouldn&#x27;t be a narrative for the people who pay for it.</i><p>So I guess you criticize every corporation who hires scientists to work on proprietary products? Elon Musk is such a fiend!<p>Look, a much better way to accomplish this is robust intellectual freedom. Rather than expecting <i>every individual scientist</i> to be able to say anything they want, regardless of employer, create a system where any scientist who hasn&#x27;t chosen to be muzzled can state controversial ideas and expect them to be received with only intellectual criticism. You need far more than just <i>legal</i> protection, you also need a culture where dissenters are tolerated and not socially shunned.<p>You also need a culture where replication and debunking are given equal respect to finding novel results. The unfortunate fact is that if someone publishes a new result, that gets vastly less prestige than if they replicate (or fail to) an existing study, or spot statistical flaws in someone else&#x27;s work.