I’m not surprised sadly - I have a PhD in chemistry and then continued to a postdoc and teaching before heading elsewhere. During my undergraduate there was a woman on the course who was very good and very competent but was also evangelical to the point of believing in a young Earth. To her, concepts such as half-lives were just lies that needed to be learnt.
Normally that has been flushed out by the time of doing a PhD, but if not it really should be.
Kinda totally past the point of caring about that distinction tbh. We’re seeing where conservatism leads and it’s abhorrent for anyone with a mild sense of decency that cares a shred about science and a world with even a hint of equality and acceptance.
I really cannot fathom how anyone that has been paying the slightest bit of attention to anything they’ve been doing during their PhD could vote for Trump and his fascists.
They were very clear what they were going to do and that included cutting this support.
It’s a huge assault on the sciences and Trump being in power and acting as king has already been impacting American researchers in hard sciences to the point where papers on physics and chemistry that are under peer review are requested by authors (and in some cases journals that should be investigated by COPE) to be substantially changed.
The censorship is incredibly wide ranging and these idiot PhDs don’t seem to have woken up yet to how bad it is.
The US regime believes in notifying parents, irrespective of the possible harm, if their child might be gay or trans but won’t bother with bullying so severe it leads to suicide. The US is fucked.