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Right. This is why I think it's under-ratedly important for contrarians who actually believe in the potential efficacy of their beliefs to not seem like contrarians. If you truly believe that your ideas are underrepresented then you will much better promote them by being appearing generally "normal" and passing off the underrepresented idea as a fairly typical part of your ostensibly coherent worldview. I will admit that this is more challenging.
But, I think, you'd better be vocal, visible and brash to some extent or you risk science advancing by funerals. If someone believes that replacing status quo beliefs with a correct contratrian belief is very important then IMO her optimal strategy will be somewhere between total crackpotness and total passivity.