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.
The same article I read claimed that people in science (excluding computer science) tend to be a bit better about it because they more often have to defend why something is right or wrong, that it's more rigorous, whereas things are more grey in engineering and medicine.