Large swaths of the audio community are openly hostile to science, so who's refusing to synthesize with who?
Head-fi literally bans science outside of a specific sub-forum.
Audiogon is full of people who are convinced audio over ethernet is different than other types of data over ethernet, who think SINAD is a ridiculous metric but think uncontrolled listening is better, "bits aren't bits", etc.
Youtube is largely populated by the same ideas.
The problems in the audio industry and audiophile community are widespread, obvious, and not new. It all goes back to the audio "press" realizing they couldn't make a living (ad revenue) on rigorous measurements and blind testing, and instead hitching their wagons to subjective uncontrolled listening as the primary means of evaluating gear.
If you realize this and understand the science even superficially, you're not going to want to "synthesize" with points of view that fail to. This is meaner than it needs to be, but I don't want to synthesize my understanding of gravity with flat earthers' either.
It's hard to have productive discussions with people who can't or won't acknowledge the existence of cognitive effects on hearing, or how electronics actually work, for example.