Unitologists are like a professional version of an insane cult. Just because they have funding and resources doesn't mean they're any less crazy. Unitologists have indoctrination rooms, torture chambers, and a bunch of other unsettling aspects of their religion. They straight up believe that necromorphs are holy and the best evolutionary step humans could make. Well, some of them. In Dead Space 1, Challus Mercer, a Unitologist scientist, believes only the non-believers and faithless are those who turn into necromorphs. Everyone else is either killed without a transformation or actually protected by the monsters.