The "Scientific Community" is so retarded and fake that they literally had the guy who invented the concept of washing your hands as a medical preparation in the 1850s put to death for daring to suggest their wonderful and gentlemanly hands could be the cause of infections, disease, and death.
When ledditors say "trust The Science!" or "it's Settled Science!", the "Science" they're worshipping is the Science of humours, lobotomies, and not washing your hands.
When you realize that in lieu of God, man will worship Fame, it's not hard to see how their idolization of Science is a religion replacement, Scientific celebrities are their saints, and the zeitgeist around it is their belief system which directs them on how to live their lives and act politically.
Of course, as the Scientific community is beholden to funding which it requires to operate, it's all a giant grift for the rich entities that fund Science as an institution to control thought by leveraging that funding.
Indirectly, it is corporatism as a religion, ironically puppetizing those that most style themselves as anti-corporate and anti-capitalist.