For those interested in this topic but who would like to see it explored with greater remove from present controversies, there’s a ton of great academic writing from the mid-20th century by historians and philosophers interested in looking at science primarily as a sociological phenomenon with cultural consequences rather than just as an epistemic tool for making inferences.

Among many others, Thomas Kuhn makes for a great introduction to stepping back and looking at science from that sociological perspective, and Paul Feyerabend — respected but controversial - anticipated exactly the sort of challenges we see surfacing today.