When you have to judge papers/findings by the motives and qualifications of the authors rather than by the data, you no longer have science you have opinion.

When the theory of relativity was introduced by Einstein, it did not matter what you thought about Einstein's qualifications or motivations. Einstein himself gave several ways the theory could be tested independently.

Because of the prestige that science garnered - it gave us airplanes, radio, tv, internet, landed a person on the moon, etc, many knowledge disciplines branded themselves as "x science". Thus, has the word "science" become devalued.