It seems quite obvious that this novelty maximizing can be strongly curtailed by political and profit-seeking power, through various incentives and punishments that are then deeply internalized by scientists. Look at how fossil fuel industry scientists long knew about climate change and lead poisoning, or pick a range of examples from pharmaceutical or nutrition sciences. This is by no means unique to science (the influence is arguably much stronger in other domains like journalism) but there is no sense in arguing science operates on an orthogonal plane to power.
My critique of the piece is that half its length is devoted to dissent that turned out to be significantly incorrect or explicitly political or of very weak rigor, that seemingly had no censorship. The other half details some meaningful and concerning censorship and conspiracy to preemptively absolve players like Daszak, etc., and I think that's where the focus should lie, as we have not learned the appropriate lessons.
My critique of the piece is that half its length is devoted to dissent that turned out to be significantly incorrect or explicitly political or of very weak rigor, that seemingly had no censorship. The other half details some meaningful and concerning censorship and conspiracy to preemptively absolve players like Daszak, etc., and I think that's where the focus should lie, as we have not learned the appropriate lessons.