Trust Me: I'm A Scientist!

A scientist who favours a moratorium on pesticide usage made an impassioned and logical plea on the steam radio this morning.
Sadly, he totally undermined his own arguments by claiming that the government should act in a particular way because 'scientists were telling them to do so.'
Oh dear. The god-complex is kicking in again, I see. We have reached a point where operational scientists are the only ones we dare trust. The theoretical guys have cried wolf far too often!