12-07-2025
Where are the right-wing scientists? Everyone's on the left like me
Trust in science has been eroded because the field is so dominated by left-wing academics, a leading evolutionary biologist has warned.
Ella Al-Shamahi, presenter of the BBC's science series Human, which starts tomorrow night, said people who lean towards the right, or have strong religious beliefs, feel alienated by mainstream science.
'We do have to be a little bit honest and say that, to many, it seems like left-leaning atheists have a monopoly on science,' she said.
The dominance of a single school of political thought in science is an important context to President Trump's withdrawal of funding from universities in America, she said. 'If you can't demonstrate that scientists and research labs don't belong to just one tribe, then suddenly it doesn't become a priority to fund them.'
