That could explain how the lead poisoning crowd took over.
No, there won't be any retractions, you will be "educated" that you are stupid, "anti science", and too stupid to understand the newly discovered "fact".
Yeah if you don't toe the line of the more senior people in the speciality, next thing you know you're outcast from your institution and no one will talk to you.
This is why I do mathematics. Most of it is impossible to argue against once there's a solid proof :)
