Well, if you want to persuade me that scientists as a group may possess any greater than the rest of humans integrity, whatever that might mean, I may have to remain unconvinced. As an institution science behaves just like any other group of people enjoying authority among the rest. Any individual behaviour is irrelevant, for the individual may buck or may not buck the trends and tendencies of the institutions they belong to, the institutions themselves may only represent those trends.
I do not see any chance given to the scientists for sprouting any wings where other groups are not given such angelic possibilities.
Now given that the general human condition is to be in egregious fundamental error of thinking and to persist in the error indefinitely unless and until the persistence is met with an irresistible force, there is nothing unnatural in the current situation in cosmology under my scrutiny. The modern physical science is simply getting its fair share of the human condition while persisting in such absurdities as the Big Bang, the existence as a whole being both expandable and compressible, space possessing the attribute of peculiar motion, the Universe possessing an attribute of finite age and so on and so forth. Nothing special to write home about. Those ideas, I am afraid, are very much business as usual as far as the preposterous beliefs of humanity are concerned. I discern nothing either specially conspiratorial or exceedingly vicious in any of that.