There’s a sizeable minority of right wing scientists. It’s unusual, but not unheard of.
Met a few. I remember around 08 a dude i worked with was convinced 2012 was end of world and the purge was going to become the standard to America. He sent work emails about wanting to fight pirates in Somalia. He only came to work because he was bored and his future was just stage 4 prostate cancer.
The distinction between left and right is entirely meaningless at this point. There are people who accept reality and people who don’t. All “right-wing” beliefs are based on delusion.
That’s the beauty of science. It goes where the evidence points to, not to where you think it should go to. That means scientists have to be able to be self critical and admit they are wrong. Haven’t seen any of that in right wing people.
right wingers dont pursue the sciences, they drop out way before that. when i was in community one of my gen bio teacher said she had a “creationist student” that had to answer god on every question and she spoke with her and she cant take a class that contradict her beliefs, so its assume she left school forever.
Not real great with healthy creativity either. They’re much better at psychopathic creativity like creating new ways to be a superior predator.
Normal people try to find what’s correct, with biases fucking it up.
Conservatives try to prove why they must be right, and attack everything that proves them wrong.
Al-Shamahi, 41, who describes her politics as “wokey-progressive — definitely left-wing”, said scientists who do not fit the political mould increasingly keep their heads down for fear of the response. “A lot of them feel that they have to hide their thoughts and their opinions.”
“Where are the deeply, deeply devout religious scientists? Where are the right-wing scientists? If all our biases are not in the room it leads to worse science outcomes.”
The definition of rightism is appeal to authority - but only the chosen in-group authority - above all else and at all costs. It is utterly and fundamentally incompatible with the search for knowledge and truth.
Where are the religious and right-wing scientists? They either deconstructed because they realized fairy tales aren’t real or they are twisting themselves in knots to convince others of their bizarre (and often hateful) foregone conclusions, which is anti-science.
The article goes on to mention the mask debate during COVID while completely missing the fact that the topic itself was literally science (masking to protect yourself and others) versus a murder-suicide cult (rightists).
Leftism is not a monolith the way rightism is. There are many different leftist ideals and theories, but rightism is exclusively about the consolidation of power.
A rightist scientist would be a comic book villain, believing in science and using it to harness power for themselves. The book The Authoritarians by Dr. Bob Altemeyer would call this type of person a “Social Dominator”, and they aren’t scientists because science is not a useful tool for controlling others and amassing power for yourself.
Jesus Christ this article is a sack of shit.
I read it and regret the time I wasted doing so. It’s the same tiresome “enlightened centrism” propaganda we’ve been bombarded with for decades.
“If you oppose anti-intellectualism then you are the one being anti-intellectual.” It’s classic newspeak rubbish.
“If you truly want to be considered “tolerant”, you should also embrace intolerance.”
Someone who’s close-minded and anti-intellectual would make a terrible researcher. Also, right-wing scientists would alienate anyone who thinks differently.
also believing pseudoscience,aka junk science as factual research too. on youtube about hominid evolution, a user got mad over the fact hominids did not evolve from this or that or from whatever time they believe it was, the channel creator said something about attributing to pseudoscience over some bones that were mishandled int eh past and thats how they got upset., if they can react this way, they arnt going survive in a grueling degree of science classes, also gen bio, gen chem, and organic chem will weed out people anyways, right wingers odnt stand a chance.
Right wing scientists exist. They are pseudoscientists.
There are none. The two are fundamentally incompatible.
I havent interacted much with working scientists for the past 5-10 years, but when I was there definitely were right wing scientists in the “free markets are good, the state should be mostly hands off, dont make big sweeping changes too quickly” sense. I dont particularly agree with that viewpoint but its completely compatable with being a scientist.
But that sort of conservativism is essentially politically homless now (in the UK and USA at least).
Engineers. Doctors. Dentists.
So these people want DEI for right wingers in Science?
