Yes and there has always been a political angle to “science” but even if one ignores that it is hard to ignore how many times “experts” have been wrong concerning pending disasters and apocalyptic scenarios which reveals the humanity and the flawed human nature of even the priests of science.
I’ve always loved science what I don’t love is the ego driven insistence that it must have a goal to invalidate the concept of God, energy production, human civilization, and on and on. What has occurred increasingly is that those who have no traditional religion fill that moral void with scientism. What we see increasingly is a secular religion dressed in the garb and language of science. It has its own rites, its own thou shalt nots, and great stories built of a bits of rock and bone stitched together with great flights of imagination and not much more. They find a toe bone of a “squirrel like” creature with no DNA and no truly empirical way of truly verifying anything and suddenly there is an artist rendition of one of humanities earliest “relatives”. That isn’t science that is the furthest thing from it. Its a parody of science framed in word webs meant to impress and intimidate the common man.