I dunno, I'm 26 and I've been getting more and more scientifically conservative as of the last 10 years. Excluding the topics of intense interest, of course, but in vast majority of those I tend to end up even more conservative as I learn why the scientists in the field have priors they have, and so i understand why there is apparently strong 'prejudice' among scientists, aka, priors. Yes, true, this 'prejudice' ends up wrong now and then, but the public has a cherry picked selection of when it ended wrong, without thousands times the cases where the 'prejudice' was right, and it is a very correct prior overall. Note: this absolutely doesn't apply to the consensus among non-scientists, which includes proto-sciences, and engineer 'consensus'.
Freeman Dyson writes in the New York Review of Books about people who took up the crackpot offer. Not just complete cranks, but eminent scientists such as Eddington who got into crankery in their later years.
New thing I learnt: Dyson was not only a good friend of Immanuel Velikovsky, but considers him a greatly underappreciated poet.