How is that even legal
Like if I were to be caught doing this to a random woman it would be appropriately labelled 'stalking' yet when a company does it they potentially have a patentable marketing technique on their hands or something.
Sarcasm was already dead before “spam” meant ads instead of scrolling a forum or chat window by repeating yourself (exactly like the Monty Python sketch it alluded to).
If the priors were the other way then people would complain that nobody takes anyone seriously.
That sounds like a legitimate interest to me.
If I formed my opinion only from HN, I'd think most engineers love: big-tech, advertising, electric cars, Apple, tech-enabled tracking (autos, web, cell-phone, watches, exercise machines, music players - it's ok if business profits!), and tend toward self-righteousness, narcissism, and virtue-signalling.
Of course, most of us are just living our lives and trying to get by. I don't know where this self-important insufferable attitude comes from, but I suspect it's a few folks who are very noisy. Most 'normal' people don't spend much time posting to sites like these, so there is a selection bias. Sadly, I also suspect that this attitude is an advantage in today's environment. It is a mirage of self-confidence, and telling the two apart can be very hard (especially for a potential employer).
Sarcasm aside, not all natural sciences are treated equally. There are differing attitudes towards astronomy, oceanography, and climatology, for example.
Personally I'm not even convinced your claim is effective as a prejudice. What I'll concede is many engineers I've met seem to be harsher than average on pseudoscience och some varieties of manipulative lies, but that's to be expected as they have distinguishing knowledge for such things to clash with.