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The FAS is a very activist oriented group, and like most academic institutions very slanted to the left. But most scientist and engineers are not in academia.

I'm just finishing up an advanced engineering degree, and at both undergrad and grad levels, scientist and engineers tend to run more conservative than the average COLLEGE POPULATION. Why? Simple, we are more likely to be skeptical and pragmatic. We are the pople that always ask why. We are trained to look at data in an unbias way.

I'm just finishing up an advanced engineering degree, and at both undergrad and grad levels, scientist and engineers tend to run more conservative than the average COLLEGE POPULATION. Why? Simple, we are more likely to be skeptical and pragmatic. We are the pople that always ask why. We are trained to look at data in an unbias way.

Congrats on the advanced engr degree. It will serve you well.

My experience has been different. I work in a research laboratory occupied by engineers and scientists, and find that generally speaking, scientists are pretty hard to the left (which I guess would be about average for the college population), and engineers are generally center-to-right, politically. I'm an engineer who has gone over to the dark side.

I think engineers are that way for the reasons you offer, and it would make sense that scientists would be that way too, but I've found that not to be the case. My theories for this are that (1) scientists tend to spend more of their formative years in academia (you can't go far in science without a ph.d. while engineers can start making money with a bachelor's degree), and (2) scientists get more attention and funding for doing work that supports liberal causes - who ever got an NSF grant for disproving that global warming?

The FAS is a very activist oriented group, and like most academic institutions very slanted to the left. But most scientist and engineers are not in academia.

Yeah, what fuente said.

Liberalism doesn't make sense. The whole ideology is full of nonsense and self-contradiction.

Has anyone ever read the latest iteration of the Humanist Manifesto? I think it is called something like The Statement of Humanist Principals. It explicitly asserts both a right of all humans to life and the right of a woman to have an abortion.

With a document like that as a summary of your beliefs, how can you possibly claim to be a rational person?

Scientists and engineers are forced by their occupations to apply reason and analyze rationally. The kind of "Dada Philosophy" to which the left subscribes proves itself wrong without even looking past the "givens."

Having said all of that, if consevatism means religiousity, you might find it to be less dominant.