The whole "DON'T QUESTION SCIENCE, IT'S SETTLED!" thing really makes it apparent that they're trying to supplement religion with their own. It isn't real science because science is suppose to be questioned. This "settled science" is just a collection of dogmas with the new priests being scientists that regurgitate their claims. The new churches are colleges, where clearly everything the professor is saying to try to indoctrinate their freshmen students is totally not the professor's own political bias.
Clearly if someone has a PhD they're clearly an authority on every single topic regardless if it is under their umbrella of research. That 400 pound dyke that studied gay sex anarchist communes in the woods? Yeah, listen to them on topics like dieting. Oh, there's a colossal replication crisis in academia where a substantial amount of studies can't be replicated and are thus potentially fraudulent? Don't question that, the science is settled. You're an anti-science lunatic if you question it.