Within the “culture wars” dividing many nations politically, there is another persistent division, intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, over the trustworthiness of consensus science—the so-called “crisis of expertise.” Perhaps counterintuitively, however, the solution is likely not to wear “Because Science” T-shirts while insisting on “cold, hard facts.” Indeed, a certain level of modesty—regarding the uncertainties and tentativeness of even the best science—is necessary for the type of understanding and communication that might convince someone to change their scientific beliefs. While some scholars identify an anti-science ideology in certain segments of the citizenry, we should not ignore the ideological, almost religious, belief structures on both sides in the crisis of expertise. The purpose of this book is to analyze the crisis of expertise in terms of ideology, defined in this book as an inevitable worldview. Acknowledging the difficulty of useful discourse between groups who seem to live in different realities, the book employs a unique constellation of disciplinary frameworks to diagnose the crisis of expertise, including sociology of science, anthropology of religion, art history, and Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language. Reconceiving science as a field of numerous uncertainties, together with recognizing each side in the crisis of expertise as having faith-like commitments, will best serve the goals of self-understanding and persuasive communication with respect to scientific disputes in the culture wars generally and specifically in governmental policy contexts.