I'm not sure about self harm or whatever, but Planck's Principle [1] was not stated without cause: 'Science progresses one funeral at a time.' And that was a quote from an outsized figure during the golden age of physics.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck's_principle

The parent post said scientists; medicine is something I've more knowledge of. You can carry the goalposts yourself, if you wanna move them around!

(The parent post also already mentions Einstein on quantum physics.)