Space Porn : why no one has ever died from being on the wrong side of a debate in physics, chemistry, geology, astronomy, mathematics

If a simply massive scientific paradigm shift happens and not one creature in the forest, other than scientists and science journalists, gives a frack  -----  did it actually really happen ?

Why is it that the Life Sciences are the only sciences throughout humanity's long long history where tens of millions have died from being from simply being on the wrong side of a scientific dispute ?