Man playing God. What could possibly go wrong?
Yes. Man is fallen, and his chief failing is always trying to improve upon what God has created.
The exalted Scientific Method is but a tool (like a gun, although procedural, and more versatile): It is neutral and limited. It does not guarantee objectivity, no matter how much its worshippers - I call them Scientismists - pretend it does.
Scientists are fallen human beings, and make foolish mistakes. As someone who garnered awards in the physical sciences, I am not awed by them.
The predilection I most hate is that scientists climb some potentially catastrophic mountain simply because it is there, and the summit provides a vista that the military can then weaponize.
The same scientists who made it possible then sanctimoniously pontificate against the evils of the war-mongering military, who could never have climbed that particular mountain themselves.