"And so we get a curious phenomenon in the field of science fiction: sci-fi as a community in which science and scientists are valorised and in which anti-scientific ideas spread and are celebrated. While this may at first glance seem contradictory, the idea of the scientist as a heroic individual as opposed to science as a community of practice underpins this relationship when science fiction is in the mode of being a kind of fandom of science."

Yes. Exactly this.