And the worst is of course actual scientists who treat politics as a math problem because they think social science is just too easy for them and they can just figure it all out, like the german physicist lady on YouTube
This is it right here. Scientists are usually the most uninformed politically nowadays (because 100 years ago, it used to be scientists were overwhelmingly political with many being Marxists). There’s various reasons for it besides what you mentioned I think:
The zeitgeist around every person in Western societies is that liberal democracy is the best, since it supposingly provides maximum freedom to everybody. As a result, scientists think that this is obviously the most logical choice to support. In addition, they think its promises of free expression are required for scientific progress to manifest.
Capitalism has seeped deep into science, and currently careers are made and broken on the ability to gather funds for projects. Capitalists control science essentially. Therefore, the scientists who are promoted to acclaim, are the ones who are most aligned with the capitalists ideologically.
University science departments everywhere in the West have consciously made efforts to ban serious political thought from their campuses, usually in round-about ways. As a result, they’ve removed a lot of the professors who would be political enough to influence their students. I’ve seen this happen during my studies and my short time working for a university a few years ago
This is it right here. Scientists are usually the most uninformed politically nowadays (because 100 years ago, it used to be scientists were overwhelmingly political with many being Marxists). There’s various reasons for it besides what you mentioned I think:
The zeitgeist around every person in Western societies is that liberal democracy is the best, since it supposingly provides maximum freedom to everybody. As a result, scientists think that this is obviously the most logical choice to support. In addition, they think its promises of free expression are required for scientific progress to manifest.
Capitalism has seeped deep into science, and currently careers are made and broken on the ability to gather funds for projects. Capitalists control science essentially. Therefore, the scientists who are promoted to acclaim, are the ones who are most aligned with the capitalists ideologically.
University science departments everywhere in the West have consciously made efforts to ban serious political thought from their campuses, usually in round-about ways. As a result, they’ve removed a lot of the professors who would be political enough to influence their students. I’ve seen this happen during my studies and my short time working for a university a few years ago