I think the irrational paranoia about scientists is that they are too often wrong, long before they should have stepped back from the ledge. By 'wrong', I mean

I think the irrational paranoia about scientists is that they are too often wrong, long before they should have stepped back from the ledge. By 'wrong', I mean, scientists manage to produce things in the world which get entirely mis-used by the masses, too often. So there is a direct responsibility for the massive amount of mis-control/mis-use of the sciences - in any field, not just drugs/pharmacology - and this responsibility needs to be taken seriously. Oxy addiction paid for a lot of peoples paychecks. Blaming it all on the 'masses inability to control themselves' is an argument which most scientists must make, properly, before they unleash their products on the world markets. If it is made after the fact of catastrophy, instead of before, then we - who distrust scientists - inherit the problem.