>> equally rigourous and objective
A fallacy right there. Science is quite political and subjective — not to say all its practitioners are primarily motivated by politics and subjectivity.
It can get that way, but it's not supposed to. No one can be perfectly objective, but if you replace the process with something even more subjective it's going to make it worse, not better.
“Science is quite political and subjective”
Humans are. Science has nothing to say on the matter.