Agassiz refers to "Louis Agassiz" a creationist scientific racist that believed the races had been created by God in separate events. Not the best example to use.
Edit: He believed this in the late 1800 and the author of the submitted article apparently considered him a "great scientist" as late as 1922.
Eventually, the only great scientists will be ones who are still available to have their opinions policed by modern progressives.
Both things might be results of the same personality trait. On personal side, if your personal wishes are really over everything else, you are likely to go further in your personal interests - however your family will be harmed in the process. On political and pseudo scientific side, you will be attracted to more cruel self serving theories.
He believed creationism and even went so far as "creatively" interpreting religious documents to support his own biases.
All this in the late 1800s.
I'm not usually on this side of the debate but here I think it's safe to say that his non-agreeableness and personal biases led him to the wrong conclusions and that is very relevant to this submission.
The more I read about his work the more I reach the conclusion that this was a man that achieved social and academic success but was a failure as a man of science.
But look on the bright side, if a putative belief in creationism would prevent anyone from hearing about a given researcher's other & more defensible work; we would all be laughing at that silly creationist Issac Newton.
Seriously, though, you're right. One shouldn't dismiss all of people's work just because they were wrong about some things. But whether someone is a 'great scientist' is a bit unimportant in that sense.
Progressives have historically believed in government transparency, and modern ones generally support infrastructure investments, but there isn't really any social agenda. You may be thinking of liberals.
I think that's becoming less and less true. I'd say we've already reached the nadir of progressivism in the west.
No. Not at all.
But it might show that non-agreeableness might have some downsides.