Ivory-towered (I mean high position) people take this as personal offense and take revenge by spoiling / blocking advancement of career of juniors my any means including transfers and adverse ACR and so on. This is common human tendency. We can not tolerate others to prosper.
There could be a mindset where making mistakes is judged as intolerable instead of a possibility to grow. You could consider to consult the (vast) literature of the Self Determinating Theory, or the work op Carol Dweck about mindsets.
I have two such glaring examples (not naming to save them from embarrassment) where superiority complex seems to have played major role)
Subir Bandyopadhyay only two? I have many, but not to be disclosed.
Subir Bandyopadhyay Tapas Chakrabarty Do you have information about research on the topic of "sureriority complex"? We scientists should be critical about each other's statements, please do not judge this as personal attaques but as an effort to "scientify" the discussion
Nothing personal, everything official and human psychology / mindset only.
It is human nature.
Scientists are supposed to focus on truth, but they are still human.
It can also depend heavily on how the errors are pointed out.
Softly, gently and politely usually works better than the scatter gun or hand grenade approach.
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