You stop short of saying "cult," but this old thread is relevant too.
Is quant finance the new Cargo cult?
From the first post there, here is the entry in Wikipedia: Cargo cult
"A cargo cult is a millenarian movement first described in Melanesia which encompasses a range of practices and occurs in the wake of contact with more technologically advanced societies."
What are some of the new cults these days? - Not just technology or science in general; now we have AI/ML, Block chain, Data Science, all the way out to Dark Matter. Powerful cults indeed!
Maybe DM would not exactly bring wealth and prosperity, (so not classic cargo cult fodder), but its role in the search for a G.U.T. might be a cult of its own.