"I believe in science" is the cheapest intellectual dross on the market. Do you? Science is an ongoing institutional bloodbath; every "breakthrough" is a persistent or even cantankerous David finally scoring one on Goliath, often only posthumously. It's metal AF.
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I don't doubt its gritty for some iconoclast throwing their career on the table, but the aftermath doesn't spell power cords for me and that sounds like a minority. I'm visualizing the collective "hmm" of the community upon reading the paper. Which bio to start with?
I'd personally recommend anything on the people behind penicillin, the birth control pill, the lobotomy, behaviorism/early psychiatry, the early web, organ transplantation
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I'm sorry to be constantly negative nancy here and do appreciate the rec's. But are these sort of stories not selected for being extreme? Average career much less exciting? Capital S "Science" more a trial and error against our dumb, monkey brains?
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The average career in any industry isn't very exciting; the less you do, the less anyone will care enough to try and stop you (for better or for worse). Most people don't do very much, and only a subset of those who do have the stomach to persist through costly conflict.
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The history of tectonic plate theory is an instructive tale of dismissal, scorn, mockery and disbelief over a 60 year period (including rejection by no less than Albert Einstein) and was only accepted after a new generation took over.
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