Scientist´s fees in the XXI century__"$500 for a 30-minute phone call and $500/hour to review docs"

 https://retractionwatch.com/2020/10/06/prince-of-panspermia-has-a-paper-retracted-and-sues-springer-nature/#more-120602

Its seems that Ulrich A.K. Betz, Vice-President of Merck was right when in a paper published back in 2018 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162517309733

he wrote that there were no reasons for superstar scientists to be celebrated less than a superstar football player. Probably when he wrote celebrated he also meant highly paid.