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.
STEM people are labor aristocracy, generally, so their politics are often tied to their class interests. Same deal as like with chud plumbers that make 100k/yr or whatever, except with more of an affinity for technocrats.
There are some based people in STEM who just like making shit, or like FOSS people, or whomever