Sab: The scientific method requires equipment and education to come to it's full fruition. That means that it's directly tied to both ecnomics and the educational system which is also tied to economics. Power corrupts, I know you believe in that. It's naive to think that the scientific community is not tied to money and everything that is tied to money is corrupt.
All the while you are making these crazy paranoid accusations to bolster your blanket dismissal of the results of science you happend not to like, you think you are in communication with the One True God, that he think you are special, and being a man of faith give you special insights into moral questions and the right to call people who question faith evil. Yah. Totally not something which would corrupt a person.
But the money you get in academia (which by the way pay consistently less than private buisness, and i do know that for a fact), that will totally eat out your sould and make you corrupt.