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Such a physicist would hold tenure and would not summarily be fired for simply holding that opinion. From a random school somewhere on the web:

> gross professional misconduct or serious failure of a faculty member to discharge his or her obligations

Tim Hunt, a Nobel winning biochemist with tenure, was fired for making sexist comments. It certainly happens.

He actually resigned (rather quickly) but you have a point.

Replace "physicist" with "software engineer"? Or any occupation X where his/her statement holds true?