Nobody in the world gets to do the “fun” part of their job more than a fraction of their time. I don’t think scientists are uniquely hard done by here. They are

Nobody in the world gets to do the “fun” part of their job more than a fraction of their time. I don’t think scientists are uniquely hard done by here. They are enormously more privileged than the vast majority of people, being funded to do something purely speculative, it’s not too much to ask them to publish it so others can benefit from that spending too - which largely comes from taxpayers doing less fulfilling jobs.