Fascinating case. Quite a lot of emotions as well. I am not going to derail the discussion, though, as this leads to a deep rabbit hole.
To stay on topic, this is not an example of career-ending article, because he’s already retired, and nevertheless still affiliated with both Georgia Tech and California Polytechnic State University. He also himself says that the un-acceptance of his article is unprecedented, so this is hardly representative of anything.
Yes this was an unprecedented case because it was rejected after being peer reviewed and accepted. If they are going that far to censor inconvenient truth imagine how often good papers are rejected in review or not even written in the first place because the would be author knows what would happen.
https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-p...