Yeah, maybe. I'm having trouble deciding whether I think this is a difference in degree or kind. You look at things like the career/clout-driven sexual abuse t

Yeah, maybe. I'm having trouble deciding whether I think this is a difference in degree or kind. You look at things like the career/clout-driven sexual abuse that happens in Hollywood, and you think- maybe it's not all that different. But then, maybe the difference is that in Hollywood it comes from purely material pressures (?), nothing masquerading as divine authority. But then- given the subject matter, it's not hard for me to imagine some people in science seeing some prominent figures as having something like a divine-inspiration, assuming they themselves take the pseudo-spiritual view of science, even if they'd never put it that way. Even just "this person has some special insight into the biggest, most important questions" starts to sound like clergy. Maybe it's just that science is a less-religious religion? It has less of both the good and the bad ego dynamics that come with spiritual belief