Of course it does. I have a recent example to offer: Einstein’s and Poincaré’s global c of 1905, retrieved by the Tuebingen school but ignored with grinding teeth in the rest of science. It does alter general relativity, which fact admittedly lets it appear unlikely, but most of all it totally upsets the safety of CERN for earth which fact gives it a potentially infinite importance.
Science at large eschews the new fundamental result for almost a decade. Yet no one in science objects that this strategy entails a maximum risk “in the unlikely case” that c-global retrieved holds indeed true.
It is the biggest clash ever between the two rational sciences contained in medicine, that is, "science with a feeling heart" on the one hand, and naked science on the other. Only a scientist coming from medicine can solve the "nudidity problem": Paracelsus-style.
Oct. 13, 2019