Look, I don't even know what I scored on my IQ-test, but it was something next to 130. If I wanted to study medicine I could have. I could have done anything I wanted. I chose to study history, which is not at all about remembering facts. As for writing papers, it's not easy to write a scientifically correct historical paper. I know you think it's just grabbing a piece of paper and writing something down, but it's not like that.
And you may or you may not realise, but scientists alone will never form a society. It's people like me, yes you read that right ME, who will judge about what's ethically acceptable and what not.
Then again, I'm obviously Belgian here, I know that History is very poorly teached in America.