​Are scientists hiding the secrets behind their inventions?

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Are scientists hiding the real truths about the inventions they make if so why see scientists should neither be demonized nor should they be eulogized scientists are also human beings like all of us they have a particular profession and they pursue that profession and just like any other profession there can be the effects of commercialization there can be ego there can be all these human foibles, human flaws come in the field of science also but it is not that they are more in science and less in other fields they are everywhere so with respect to hiding the truth behind inventions yes there can be scandals in specific fields and sometimes some scientists may conceal certain things so for example in the 1920s 1930s for almost three decades the harmful effects of smoking lot of studies were published but they were suppressed so why because the smoking industry they wanted to have more and more customers but eventually as the evidence became stronger and stronger then it was published eventually so we shouldn’t demonize scientists are they hiding the secret behind the inventions not necessarily some scientists may be hiding certain things but overall science is also a human profession so whatever human weaknesses and human faults are there in any other field they will be there in the field of science also and whatever human strengths are there humans also have virtues scientists also have virtues and sometimes some scandal is there some scientists hide it, some other scientists expose it and that’s how the human knowledge progresses in any field and that’s how we learn whoever asked this question did you have something specific in mind when you said are scientists hiding the real truths ok.