>>13624697A lot more people are secular or atheists, but still feel the need to consoom and bend to authority. This makes "experts" their priests because they simply "cannot possible" bother be scientifically literate.
That shifting morality towards some form of humanism, egalitarianism, and "be nice" makes the most accepting of others theories and hypotheses to win. Which usually come from psychology and sociology. So when a theory or view proposes that humans might not be equal, just like religious fanatics, they treat with utmost doubt because it shakes their core beliefs.
The self-back patting as the scientific tribe gives them a sense of security and better than ignorant "unscientific" others, similar to how every religious group treats it's doctrine as the absolute unquestionable truth.
In a truly open society, I'd imagine people would be rational enough to reason and be able to comprehend scientific papers.
But this isn't the world we live in.
