The problem is the attempt to rationalize mystical or existential questions in scientific language.
"Here's a scientific explanation for unobservable, difficult-to-replicate phenomena. I am not an idiot."
As totally distinct from the attempt to scientifically investigate meditators, meditation, enlightenment et al, which is producing very interesting results (and non-results).
I despise both the scientistic need to "legitimate" everything through the language of science, and the far worse destruction of scientific rigor through unfalsifiable claims, made on "scientific" grounds.