Scientists are as likely to abuse their positions as anyone else. They are just as greedy for fame and fortune as the average rock star. More to the point, they are sometime guilty of priestcraft, which is to claim magical powers.
One more time. Will you hold that hold to that opinion in the face of assertions that creationsists are not "anti-science"?
More relevant to the purpose of this forum, will you advocate that position as the correct political stance for passing legislation and forming public policy with regard to public support of science and the scientific community?
That's because they're just as human as anyone else.
They are just as greedy for fame and fortune as the average rock star. More to the point, they are sometime guilty of priestcraft, which is to claim magical powers.
Is that why so many scientists have their own television shows on which they appear immaculately coiffed, sometimes with their wives interjecting, "Oh! Praise Pasteur!" every few moments while the scientist tearfully warns his viewers that unless the viewers send money, that science won't like them any more?