I was looking a study of "Scientists" and it shows that as a class they are shockingly liberal/democrat leaning. Shocking until you remember that academia with the "Political Correctness" movement began purging Conservative professors and voices in the 1980's. 20 years later, a generation that knows nothing about Civics, History or Reason. A generation that has no clue about the Constitution, the value of freedom, or even what it is like to live in freedom. Schools have become the most repressive environments possible. Rule books, expulsions at the drop of a hat, and petty infractions being handled by police are the new rules.
Its no wonder these kids are lost.
The majority of working theoretical scientists depend for their living and career advancement upon government research grants and funding for public universities and labs. You’d no more expect them to be conservative than you’d expect that of a trial lawyer or the executive director of a county welfare agency. It’s about dollars and cents!
Beyond that, people who don’t really care about politics (and that’s most scientists) form their political opinions superficially.
If you think that science is very important and being well-educated, intellectual and articulate are the sine qua non of leadership, your superficial view of conservatives, what with the tolerance of creationists and the rather conspicuous role played by people who appear rather limited in intellectual fire power, is going to be pretty low.
About the only major that’s not dominated by the left is engineering because they deal with facts (numbers). And even libtards understand that a bridge built on what “feels good” will collapse. (Do remember in “The Saint,” though, where the ditzy lib female scientist cracked cold fusion by touchy-feely “science,” so maybe the libtards don’t understand that. S’ok, most engineers do.)