Not sure why this is getting downvoted. Professional scientists tend to have the politics of PMC liberal technocrats, so of course they're going to be weak and both make concessions to backwards consciousness and to reactionary psyops. Most of the "successful" scientists suck so much at politics that they take the terms dictated by capitalists as completely exogenous and unchangeable by themselves, never expunge the brainworms they picked up as a rite of passage, and have no position of strength to leverage materially like the proles have overall.

Exceptions include grad students, postdocs, adjuncts, some early tenure-track professors, and other severely underpaid and indebted scientists "in training" who have so little power within academic spaces and so exploited inside and outside of them that they've increasingly taken up working-class politics, having been alienated from academia in particular and the PMC in general. The scientists with the best politics tend to be the "failures" and unlucky "junior scientists" with the least weight in decision-making processes like switching from global warming to the more euphemistic climate change, the sort of decisions made to soothe the egos of the sort of rich assholes scientists or their universities might have to beg for grant money.