Most scientists are scam artists

Sure there's a small percentage of scientists that actually drives research forward.  But most scientists are involved in unimportant, piecemeal research that only tenuously drives the field forward.  They're just in it for the grant money - yeah it's not much but they take home 40k - 80k and everyone's happy.

You're right. Like that time Hawking came up to me and said "hey, why don't you pay me a billion dollars, and then I will give you two billions?" and I said "naaah, I don't have a billion dollars", but my friend had this sum and gave it to Hawking and he just ran away to European island or Australia or sometihng.