Only 6% of Scientist Identify Themselves as Republicans?

Einstein and Oppenheimer: two notoriously liberal scientist

This has to be the most astonishing statistic I've ever encountered! A Pew Research Poll last year found that only 6% of Scientist on average identify themselves as Republicans while 55% of scientist identified themselves and Democrats and 32% of scientist identified themselves as Independents.

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Only Six Percent Of Scientists Are Republicans: Pew Poll