It's pretty common for ideology to pose as science. Many people have pointed out that science has turned into a sort of religion; I think it's more like a cult.
The story of David Reimer is tragic and strange. He was injured as a baby by a doctor attempting to circumcise him. Then another doctor John Money convinced his parents to subject the child to a sex change operation, take hormones, and get "therapy" with him. The therapy involved abusing the boy and his twin brother in bizarre ways. David Reimer eventually blew his head off after a lifetime of problems. His twin brother died of an overdose. It's a story that sounds like urban legend, or the plot of a horror movie. In spite of that, the "doctor" received several awards over his life and was celebrated.
The story is actually quite similar in some ways to the huge push for green energy and EVs. There's an idea: maybe battery powered vehicles are better. It seems plausible. For some reason, some tiny group of people decide everyone needs to go all-in on it, even though the vehicles are not even close to a 1:1 replacement. The batteries might not improve much, and if they don't solar and EVs are kind of crap. In spite of that everyone thinks they're "the future".
That story is similar to the covid vaccine story. There's huge insistence that the vaccines worked, but anybody can see they didn't.
In each of these stories "science" = magic. Failure to believe means the magic science won't work, not because it's flawed, but because it's a spell that requires belief.
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