“I am & have been for years a confirmed anti-vaccinationist. Anti-vaccination has no backing from the orthodox medical opinion. A medical man who expresses himself against vaccination loses caste. Tremendous pecuniary interests too have grown around vaccination.”
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Breaking with professional consensus carries a real cost — colleagues close ranks and standing can vanish quickly. It's worth noticing how much money quietly shapes what counts as accepted opinion, which is why open dissent stays rare even when a person is sincerely convinced.
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- An accountant who flags a lucrative billing practice the whole firm quietly relies on.
- A researcher whose findings threaten the very industry that funds the study.
- An employee who won't publicly praise a popular product she knows is flawed.