My point is that the ones who support the standard narratives are the ones who are more likely be evil.

The ones that don't tend to be discredited and lose funding. With very few exceptions. In mathematics there is no narrative to push for example, so as long as you shut your mouth you get to keep doing your research.

That said, the number of real scientists left in academia is orders of magnitude lower than the number of career academics larping as scientists. And even the scientists fall for the traps of the quasi-religious cult that is academia. I ended up losing a bunch of "friends" over the clot shots, including Cambridge PhDs in Mathematics or PhDs in Physics from other global elite universities. And since we had the same training I know for fact that they subconsciously must know that they're wrong, because the data and papers regarding that shitshow are far below the level of what any of us are used to.