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I found this article hilarious. The idea that the genuinely valuable truth about how the world really works could be found in lost tomes of arcane lore has crossed my mind at times.
The historical reason why we are not ruled by a scientific priesthood, though, is easy to see. Until fairly recently, science did not produce the power to perform seeming miracles. Only by operating in the open could scientists prove they weren't dabbling in witchcraft, because that crisis took place long before the atomic bomb or the Gatling gun.
"Wings Over the World" from H. G. Wells' Things to Come, of course, is the classic literary example of how this could come to pass after a collapse of civilization.
Computers and Cyclotrons is the role-playing game. Scientist: the Discovery is the collectable card game.