"What I don't like is when religion joins with theories that can not be reliably tested and scare-mongering under the rubric of science. Then they deny being th

"What I don't like is when religion joins with theories that can not be reliably tested and scare-mongering under the rubric of science. Then they deny being the pseudo science that they are. Seems like it combines the worst of everything: end-of-days, a call for repentance, smearing the critics, and smarmy self-righteousness." So what you are saying is that if scientists comment on the apparent societal consequences of their research, it is religion or pseudoscience? At the same time, if someone who's not a scientist comments on those things, people will say that they are unqualified and doesn't know what they are talking about. That's a nice recipe for making science irrelevant to society, it seems to me.