I think the scientism worldview is promoted by elites because it shuts down a big part of what would be up for discussion. The bugman nigger cattle seem to harbour a fundamental misunderstanding about epistemology. They're all about "WE HAVE TO DO THIS BECAUSE SCIENTIST/EXPERT SAID SO," but the question to that should be "WHY?" One of Hume's more famous contributions was to assert that you cannot derive an "ought" from an "is." An empirical scientist's job is to understand what is, or what effect might arrive as a consequence of a given action--NOT what ought to be, as that is the domain of the likes of philosophers and theologians. A scientist or expert discusses the means to an end, and so to try and dispute the assertions of The ScienceTM is only to dispute the means to the end, but not the end itself, which is a given.
What is the benefit of this? Just look at what has been going on with covid these past two years. My opinion on covid, in brief, is that coronaviruses are the common cold. Strains of it got engineered to be more dangerous in a lab, then it got out, and because it is evolutionarily disadvantageous for the cold to be too deadly, it is evolving back into the regular old common cold. It is becoming less deadly and more contagious over time, see: omicron. People spend a lot of time and energy disputing the means. ACKCHYUALLY masks don't work. ACKCHYUALLY there is no scientific basis for vaccine passports or curfews. ACKCHYUALLY the vaccine has this bad side effect. But we get so fixated on these means that there's no discussion of what the end goals are; why are we doing this, even the purported end goals? Are they trying to permanently remove the common cold? Is it the curve flattening thing, where they don't want hospitals to get overwhelmed? It can't possibly really be hospital related, because actual hospital capacity usage data suggests usage might actually be down, maybe due to people not seeking care for non-covid issues. And if it were about hospital capacity being overwhelmed, wouldn't the first and most obvious thing be to simply build out hospital capacity such that it is possible to accommodate the new seasonal spikes? Unbelievably, my premier announced he was shutting down some of this province's ICU beds, like our ICU capacity is going down, along with other nonsense like dismissing unvaccinated nurses during a plandemic when you'd think they might need nurses. But all this discussion about what the end goal should be goes right out the window when all you're allowed to discuss or dispute is the means to that end. I don't think this problem goes all the way to the top, but it seems to be an effective tactic to keep the plebs in line.
I think one of the underlying reasons they have latched onto The ScienceTM is that, in the past, people used science to undermine their ideology:
>biological sex vs troon headcanon
>DSM-IV says that's a mental illness
They've put a lot of time and energy in converting science into a conduit for their ideology/religion, so they can cite their ideology/religion as fact. A lot of science is still subjective and political. Like a lot of the decision making for whether something is or is not a mental illness can be flipped just by stacking committees with true believer zealots.
So what do they actually believe or worship? It seems as though, archetypally, the Sacrificial 6M are "Their Christ," collectively (antichrist?), and the Climate Apocalypse is their millenarian Book of Revelation. The so-called "Enlightenment" as the dawn of a Luciferian age. Sometimes they express interest in tabula rasa egalitarianism, along with efforts to implement an inverted caste system as redress to perceived unfair history/society as perpetrated by perceived fundamentally evil people. Their worldview seems predicated on some sort of Gnostic or Manichean Dualism (condemned as heretical by nearly every religion ever, which tend to be monist), with both a Manichean sense of good and evil, as well as a Satanic inversion of what constitutes good and evil. For example, see: