You can take the religion out of the people, but you can't take away people being spiritual.
The same people who luv da science won't let ANYONE do any empirical research on anything they consider sacred. Race. Sex. (There is no such thing as Gender.) Hell, if they ever get into power enough, they'll do the same thing to economics. "It's settled science that socialism is the only effective means of running an economy."
And, having got the "answers" they hold to be true, will talk down at you for hating science if you dare disagree with their cult.