The perception that conservatives are anti-science and liberals/left are pro-science is one of the most amazing slight of hands the propagandist dominant media culture has ever pulled off.
It’s absurd on the face of it. Liberals and the left have been Malthusian with regard to new technologies and advances with their anti-industry, anti-capitalist and superstitious beliefs.
It's right up there with "liberals are tolerant and conservatives are bigots" and "Democrats supported the Civil Rights movement and Republicans were the segregationists."