And this is another semantic issue here. The article (and my experience) both deal with the "Science" part of STEM, and specifically in biology/biochemistry, a

And this is another semantic issue here. The article (and my experience) both deal with the "Science" part of STEM, and specifically in biology/biochemistry, and specifically in academia (professorships at universities in hard-science fields). And defining those boundaries of discussion should be very much a starting point for any of these discussions.