I wholeheartedly agree that professionals need to encourage new lines of research and inquiry. Colleagues probe, search, and reflect then report their ideas and results so that peers will give serious consideration to their work (or work in progress).
When the world at large is not terribly supportive, let us at least encourage and nurture each other in our pursuit for knowledge. We will advance the field by promoting corroboration, contradiction, and vigorous debate. Professionals have an obligation to encourage and to challenge original thought (this stretches and expands the field for all of us); they have no privilege to attack an insightful scholar or to discourage legitimate investigation and reporting. If those who govern the field block, obstruct, constrain, crush, and restrict a colleague's efforts, how will we grow intellectually?