Can you think of a scenario where science has ever benefited from censorship? Correct me if I am wrong, but respectfully that is the argument you are making, right?
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Not that science benefits from censorship, but that game theory sometimes necessitates it.
Imagine a scientist with significant political cachet. This allows them to receive more funding, do more science. They cannot optimize their behavior only for truth-seeking, because that fails to maximize their political capital. If they optimize for the former, they will be replaced by someone who is better at the latter.
Any scientist that relies on external funding must balance science with politics to continue to do science, sometimes this involves censorship.