What, scientific researchers are immune to the avarice that rules human hearts? They must “all be respected” now, like teachers? Like even the teachers who seduce students, then get away with it because they’re hot? Please. Scientific researchers work like anyone else. For money. They go where the money goes and hire lobbyists and grant writers to get them the money, and prior history shows we likely cannot trust Kaiser Permanente with anything. Thanks, however, for going personal right off the bat.
I happen to know some medical scientific researchers and I can guarantee you that the ones I know are not living in McMansions and are certainly not getting rich. Sure grant money is an important aspect to funding research and yes, some research is stupid and based on non-scientific reasoning and obviously a play for grant money. But just as your analogy of teachers seducing students and getting away with it because they are hot does not represent the vast majority of teachers, neither does that same logic apply to all researchers.
A few bad apples does not make the bushel.