Scientists believe themselves to be the prophets of the new religion. To them "science" is a special revelation that gives them authority to make moral decrees.

When I was younger I read a lot of creationist material, and they saw this coming. They argued that people need a framework to view the world through, and with the increasing secularization of society they said that "science" would become that framework.

Of course, the question is, why is people using science as a framework to view the world a bad thing? The answer, as usual for Christians, is that human nature corrupts everything. A person's worldview must give them a lens to view morality through. But morality is outside of the purview of science, so what do you do? Well you loudly declare that it is in the purview of science! A person's worldview must give them an understanding of the past and present. So now history and sociology are science. It needs to help you understand yourself so psychology is science.

So science is denigrated further and further by the need to include topics that it's not equipped to deal with. All the while a bait and switch is pulled so now the "knowledge" from these non-scientific fields are attributed the same weight as the knowledge from physics, chemistry, or biology. The successes of the, so-called, hard sciences (a designation only necessary because the new "sciences" aren't amenable to the scientific method) are attributed to "science" and hence all of these other fields.

Now, here we are in 2020. We've seen a decade of "I fucking love science" style blatant indoctrination into seeing scientists as the prophets of the new age who can never be questioned. Science is now explicitly political, and the views of scientists on things far outside their field are expected to be accepted merely because of their title.

Now, scientists are either seeking political power, and/or people looking for political power are using science as a means to obtain it. It's only going to get worse.