There definitely is, as academics life work and achievements are often tied to specific concepts and therefore they resist new ideas.
See what happened with Alzheimers, where as specific theory that is probably wrong dominated for years and received most funding, sending a cure back years as well.
It might be a self-reinforcing cycle? To get funding researchers write grant proposals to target the most trendy research topics, which when funded lead to more research papers and momentum around those topics. Speculative research is thereby forced to survive more as side projects than the primary research areas of successful labs.
See what happened with Alzheimers, where as specific theory that is probably wrong dominated for years and received most funding, sending a cure back years as well.
https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarte...