• Womble@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      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).