It’s more than just lab coats; there seems to be an aura of “otherness” that pervades scientific experimentation. It’s as if their actions have the same natural inevitability as gravity, and are divorced from the human sphere of care and compassion.
Their view from the scientific heights delights in portraying people as insignificant and ephemeral, but it’s only people that give Science any meaning.
Science is not in the service of the Universe, it’s in the service of people.