Obviously this isn't really science that we are talking about. Science is all about curiousity, and challenging limits. When science becomes dogma, it also becomes religion.
You are stating the obvious...
This is tangentially analogous to an atheist challenging the plain-as-day notion that “atheism isn’t a religion” on an effectively immaterial technicality (God/no god) - completely ignoring that atheism (like Christianity) is held on faith and guides actions and is for all intents and purposes a religion, with no rational basis for exemption from the same separation-of-church-and-state arguments. (Notwithstanding that the arguments themselves are of course specious - a grotesque out-of-context perversion of what Jefferson actually wrote. But then if there’s no afterlife, and no ultimate punishment for evils committed in this life, then there’s no reason not to lie if it advances one’s standing in the Darwinian cycle...)
Thanks for the ping!