These can be looked at as healthy acts of uncontaminated or uninhibited curiosity combined with disciplined inference rather than rebellion or hostility. Such acts are horrifying to those other people programmed into inhibition and frightened to deviate from it. Or they can be horrifying to those with various investment in superstition. Or they can be horrifying to those incapable of curiosity and thought. There is a difference between uninhibited curiosity and inference versus rebellion, although some people don't understand that difference.
Some people interpret healthy curiosity as rebellion.
Others all too willingly attempt to mistake their blind infantile rebellion for genius. The latter condition is tempting because one doesn't need a mentality of quality to qualify as genius, only primitive anger is sufficient. We have an undoubted confidence in reality as children, which most of us carry through adulthood if we don't get entangled in the word games of philosophy or liberalism. If you asked a 10 year old whether he'd jump off the edge of a cliff he'd tell you you're nuts because he assumes both of you know he'd fall and be killed. Reality becomes an assumption.