The modern institution of "science" has become a religious authority.
The dogma of "science" is occurring widely across every academic field, in every scientific journal and every scientific institution, where is is passed off as real science.
Think about theoretical physics. You had things like relativity, quantum electrodynamics and uncertainty emerge around 100 years ago. Within 25 years, these theories yielded products that produced more energy and human agency than the entirety of human civilization on Earth.
What has theoretical physics achieved in the last 50 years, when string theory came onto the scene? Literally nothing, and at immense cost and intellectual investment. We've barricaded theoretical physics (which is provably the single field with the greatest influence on mankind period, because it enabled advanced medicine, cheap energy and nuclear weapons) behind a completely pretentious notion of string theory. This wouldn't be an issue if string theorists didn't actively hunt and suppress literally all over avenues of theoretical physics in an extremely autocratic way.
Take for example what theoretical physics did to the USSR. In 1940, the peak of available Soviet technology was the ox-drawn hoe. It was the largest labor multiplier available across all of Russia. By 1950, the USSR had nuclear fission. It's so easy to forget how physics catapulted mankind into an entirely new paradigm of existence that would be regarded as impossible by all humans who came before.