These same scientists are the same people who deny all claims by cryptozoology and anything outside the mainstream. They have become what the Catholic Church was hundreds of years ago.
The last earthquake we had here, about a year ago, my horse went completely bonkers for several minutes, just before and during, and I didn’t feel a thing. Only found out later we’d had one. . Animals know
Scientists don’t capriciously “reject” these ideas, on the whole, there just aren’t clear correlations. Don’t you think that the international fame that would come from discovering a true and measurable correlation would be an incentive to publish such a correlation?
Mainstream scientists are like other people with prejudices and all, but kicking and screaming they will be convinced by real and reproducible data.