The Science™ Cult has Official Tenets that must always be obeyed.
Clergy in White Coats ("Scientific Experts") promote the Cult Tenets to the Unwashed Masses.
If anyone questions The Science™, they are labeled as a Heretic ("Anti-Science" or "Anti-Vaxxer"), excommunicated and financially ruined ("Cancelled").
The only way a Heretic can be reintegrated back into the Cult is to publicly atone themselves and promise never to do it again.
So much for the love of academic sharing and teaching the unwashed masses, like men like Sagan and Gould used to preach in their pop-sci books.
Science has become The Science™ and it's now religion. Can't let the plebs read it themselves, have to pass down the knowledge only from priests.
The Science™ Cult has Official Tenets that must always be obeyed.
Clergy in White Coats ("Scientific Experts") promote the Cult Tenets to the Unwashed Masses.
If anyone questions The Science™, they are labeled as a Heretic ("Anti-Science" or "Anti-Vaxxer"), excommunicated and financially ruined ("Cancelled").
The only way a Heretic can be reintegrated back into the Cult is to publicly atone themselves and promise never to do it again.