Having a scientific mindset – embracing skepticism, rationality, empiricism, etc. – does not mean accepting every idea or policy claiming to be based in science or endorsed by scientific experts, while dismissing out of hand any disagreement or alternative proposals as “anti-scientific” or “science denialism”.
That isn’t science, it’s cultism.
One can easily recognize this cultism in how the response to these supposedly scientific ideas or policies is accompanied by extravagant condescension, histrionic outrage, punitive spite, and other affects at odds with the objective and dispassionate pursuit of knowledge about reality.
— Avery Easton