"The best X's are curious and entrepreneurial."

a) well okay, sure, for large swaths of X

b) ...and so are the worst X's. And when X is "data science" we should be interested in telling those stories too

The leaked HBGary emails provide a pretty clear example of entrepreneurship destroying one particular curious mind's capacity for doing hard science. Money isn't evil, but it's a filter on perspective that in many, many people turns their capacity for skeptical research to absolute shit.