There are ideals and then are practicalities. Imagine a universe where it was discovered by theoretical modeling that speaking a certain word out loud would cause the earth to explode. Obviously scientists would want to know why or how such a weird phenomenon could exist under natural law, share and study it more. Practically speaking though, publishing it would be the end of life on earht, because one nincompoop of the X billion nincompoops in the world will go ahead and try it.