Perhaps you might try actually meeting real scientists in the real world.
We're not sickos like these two, and we're not dorks like what hollywood shows you on the TV.
I gotta say, though, the field of psychology seems to attract (or produce, not sure which) some truly odd ducks. Jordan Peterson is a breath of fresh air coming from that community.
Aha! So YOU are a scientist. We’ll be keeping an eye on you. ;-)
Certain personality traits are “beneficial” for certain lines of work, like bravery in military men. But they can lead to weird stuff, as in this case. The other story this reminds me of is Cheaper By the Dozen, where the father was a progressive & into studying efficiency & ran his huge household that way. Much less negative than the chimpanzee case, though.