yeah, if only «they» were a monolith, they might have official bodies capable of issuing position statements on behalf of their scientist members, they might have some sort of (I don't know) Royal Society even... they might, in short, be capable of at least a rudimentary form of self - policing, perhaps even enough to render themselves culpable en masse for the
abuses they
collectively turned a blind eye to, despite having the collective ability to
stop them.