I think you're confusing a method with a dogma.

And if a method came along that was more useful still - more predictive, able to integrate subjective and objective experience, say - I'd jump. Of course, so would the scientific community, which would mean you'd carry on saying that it was just the same old thing anyway.

I suspect you've got a dogmatic position that science is no different from religion. They're not even the same class of phenomenon.