Then mum’s the word.

Cutting off access to an entire region of potential upward utility...perhaps permanently if no one is willing to fight the consensus.

I don’t understand what you are saying.

Contradiction is socially disruptive, and ignored/policed quite thoroughly, denying access to Humans of pretty substantial portions of reality which is instead represented by illusory proxies/heuristics.

You’re talking in riddles even more than the most hermit mindfulness practitioner.

An example: if religion shut down early practitioners of science, do you believe humanity would have missed out on any valuable knowledge?

Or, how about if science had only received 1% of the total funding it has?