Can you document this and that the negative impact looks anything like zombification, which appears to be your thesis?

For instance, almost all the research these days in energy technology, whether it be solar power, wind power, battery technology, modular nuclear, etc., is focused on mitigating the damage that older technology caused.

You bring up social media, but the fundamental research required for this is a very modest portion, non-instrumentalizing, and it's all tech culture and business culture that is driving exploitatitive patterns of interaction which, honestly, could have been done 20 years ago. Science is slightly incidentally enabling by doing things like figuring out better battery technology, but this isn't instrumentalizing people at all.

Again: there's no point attacking Germany now to stop the rise of authoritarianism.

Civilization's destructive impact is almost entirely coasting on existing, older scientific discoveries. And you can go all the way back finding how people have been exploiting the natural world and each other--slavery and environmental damage in Rome for instance--so if you're going to single out science for anything you need to document that it's presently pushing us above and beyond the typical-human average.

There is one area--only one--that I'm aware of where you might possibly have a solid argument that there's a significant negative zombifying impact, if we admit an expansive definition of what constitutes "science". But I'm not going to share it because I don't think you understand the domain that you're talking about well enough to conclude what you've concluded (and I don't think this one area is enough to make the case overall), and it's more difficult to discern this if I make your arguments for you. Maybe you actually have others! But social media isn't a good one itself, because the scientific input is negligible, and the pattern of exploitation is not exacerbated by scientific instrumentalization. (It is true that people do use aspects of the (typical) scientific method to, for instance, try to maximize engagement--but are you classifying this as part of the "institution of science"?)