I think the permise is hard to implement, because a PhD already implies a herd mentality in most cases. Suck it up to the superiors and learn your parcel of knowledge, god forbid changing deeply your branch of knowledge with some groundbreaking invention or discovery.<p>In a postdoc it's about keeping the job, which is funnily available in the current society because of the surplus stemming from technological breakthroughs made by dogma-less innovators.