A monoculture does not require some kind of conspiracy or even concerted efforts to maintain it. Simple dominance by numbers is sufficient, and that is very muc

A monoculture does not require some kind of conspiracy or even concerted efforts to maintain it. Simple dominance by numbers is sufficient, and that is very much observably the case based on numerous polls of political leanings. FWIW I'm not even saying that it's necessarily a bad thing in and of itself. As far as I'm concerned, a lot of it is due to conservatives increasingly drifting away from major positions that can be sustained through facts and reason (although the same effect also exists on the other side of the aisle, I'd say it's less pronounced overall). But that doesn't matter. OP's point is, if science falls squarely on one side of political spectrum, for any reason, the consequences shouldn't be surprising.