Excellent questions. Thanks for posting.

Who are "thay?"

I am the you, and you are the me,
there is no they, here are we.

"The powers that be?"

A false sense of power from what I do,
A true sense of being from me to you.

"To me the powers that be have abused the gifts of the science minded for far to long,I would appreciate some feedback on this,"

Yes, follow the money. Money for war, money for death, disease and degradation. Rather, than try to list all of the detriments of misused and abused science, instead I ask: Is science a gift? And, how do we use science to the benefit of our lives?