I suspect it's the same for scientists for controversial topics. But discussing controversial topics is not science. Coming up with a way to verify a claim is. In general personality must be correlated with opinion (or at least that's my intuition :)).
This is a combination news-announcement and begging for someone with academic subscriptions to maybe jailbreak a PDF for us.
"Persistent bias in expert judgments about free will and moral responsibility: A test of the expertise defense" (emphasis added):
Linked from http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/experimental_philosophy/2011/06/failure-of-the-expertise-defense-persistent-bias-in-expert-intuitions-.html which elaborates: