> Increasing knowledge is the only legitimate goal of science. If you wanted to benefit society, you should have gone into a different line of work. And who ar

> Increasing knowledge is the only legitimate goal of science. If you wanted to benefit society, you should have gone into a different line of work. And who are you, so wise in the ways of science, to decide what the only legitimate goal of science can be? Science, technology, none of these exists in a vacuum. People, even academics, have a life outside of their work. What affects that life affects what they work on as well. It's only natural.