Not to ones that they themselves suspect are wrong, if that’s what you mean. But it’s hard to signal high intellectual status while expressing the same beliefs as all of your peers, so if you want to signal, you have a motive to find a point of disagreement.
They advocate (possible wrong) opinions to signal that they stand out of the crowd. Did I unpack that right?
Not to ones that they themselves suspect are wrong, if that’s what you mean. But it’s hard to signal high intellectual status while expressing the same beliefs as all of your peers, so if you want to signal, you have a motive to find a point of disagreement.