Here on FR when discussions turn to religion and philosophy vs. the current pronouncements of scientific theory, to say, “That's not scientific” or some such is a pejorative that the utterers appear to think renders all dissent futile.
Here that sort of thing provides fuel for debate but when the person saying it can put a choke hold on one’s career by restricting research facilities and therefore the mother's milk of publication, peer review, then it's quite a different story.
The inquisition lives on. What will be next, house arrest? Too bad so many people assume white labcoats confer objectivity. Indeed, it would seem the field of science is one of the last bastions still capable of fooling the public into believing they are immune to human frailty. But alas, I suspect the days of being able to rely on naive public trust are rapidly coming to a close.