It is completely inexcusable that people in STEM fields are so reactionary, considering how capitalism utterly destroys science.

If universities were actually "left wing indoctrination factories" like the right thinks they are, every STEM grad would be taught, for example, what Kropotkin had to say about innovation.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      yep. its a thing that frustrates me to no end. i try to educate them, show them papers and statistics, but they're in a damn cult.

      • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Dogmatist do this, I guess. Become anti-science, that is, because they're worried that it'll taint their sacred knowledge from the one guy or book. J. Moufawad-Paul talks about it with Breht of Rev Left Radio in their episode on Moufawad-Paul's book.

        I'm not saying the people you are referring to are these types but the behavior seems similar. That or it's similar to the anti-intellectual behavior on the right. Fear of the unknown maybe?