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Scientists To Rally On Earth Day To Protest Trump Cuts, Views
Hartford Courant ^ | 4/20/2017 | Russell Blair

Posted on 04/20/2017 5:56:58 PM PDT by mdittmar

Scientists and academics in Connecticut and across the country will head out of the labs and into the streets on Saturday — Earth Day — to confront what one organizer described as a lack of respect for science among some members of Congress and President Donald Trump.

"The scientific method is not a partisan issue, it's not something that should be divisive," said Harrison Hayward, a fourth-year UConn medical student organizing a Hartford rally, which will begin at noon at Mortensen Riverfront Plaza.

Diane Krause, a professor at the Yale School of Medicine, is heading up a New Haven event, which starts at 1 p.m. in East Rock Park and will include a science fair and rally followed by a march.

Trump's campaign slogan was Make America Great Again, and "we know that our science is one of the things that has made us great," Krause said. She admitted that it was a little "weird" that people will be marching in the streets for science, and particularly for conclusions "we thought were obvious" and that have had bipartisan support.

"Facts have been questioned," Krause said, referring to statements Trump administration officials have made regarding scientific conclusions about climate change. "Hard facts are being questioned."

(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: earthday; fakescience; first100days; globalwarming; scientists
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To: mdittmar

Probably not a working scientist in the bunch


21 posted on 04/20/2017 6:42:47 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: vette6387

I’m from Connecticut, as far away as I can get! Never been there and don’t plan on ever going there.


22 posted on 04/20/2017 6:43:12 PM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: PROCON
Perfecto 😱😱😱😱🤑
23 posted on 04/20/2017 6:44:00 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: mdittmar
"The scientific method is not a partisan issue, it's not something that should be divisive,"

That's always the left's MO. Politicize everything and then claim that the right politicized it. They are always projecting

24 posted on 04/20/2017 6:48:38 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Modern day liberals are the most intolerant, hateful, and violent people in America)
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To: mdittmar

Take names and pull grants


25 posted on 04/20/2017 7:00:05 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: mdittmar

OMG! The feed trough is going to go dry! Somebody DO something and quickly!


26 posted on 04/20/2017 7:10:24 PM PDT by Vesparado (The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
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Scientists whoring for grants.


27 posted on 04/20/2017 7:21:14 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: UB355

Undoubtedly after all the billions spent they came up with something of value. However, most of the money is spent on studies like why shrimp fight. With a twenty trillion dollar debt we cannot afford such luxuries.


28 posted on 04/20/2017 7:24:20 PM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: mdittmar

Out of touch Ivory Tower “scientists” did what?


29 posted on 04/20/2017 7:50:32 PM PDT by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: Seaplaner

That is one of the main points of the cartoon.

Invent an emotional Theory.
Create computer models
Cherry-pick data
Pronounce the issue “Settled Science” and canonize the High Priests of your Religion - Gore, Paul Ehrlich, etc.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken


30 posted on 04/20/2017 7:56:51 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: UB355

Seconded. If they want to commit mass insubordination, they can do it on their own dime and time.


31 posted on 04/20/2017 8:01:58 PM PDT by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: Gene Eric

The Weather Channel has joined the scam. This week they’re doing something called “Science Week” that purports to present a “Fair Look” at “science”. What the Hell does that mean? Does science need a fair look? Why? So far their programming has focused on “Climate Change”, declared as an absolute.


32 posted on 04/20/2017 10:01:41 PM PDT by bruin66 (Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.)
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To: bruin66

I avoid WC for such reasons. Use AccuWeather when possible.


33 posted on 04/20/2017 11:32:52 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric

They made a mistake in the headline. These political - based idiots are really ANTI-SCIENTISTS who distort, lie and omit so as to advance their agenda and recieve grant money stolen from taxpayers. I suggest they do society a favor by committing mass harikari.


34 posted on 04/20/2017 11:45:02 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: mdittmar

“The scientific method is not a partisan issue, it’s not something that should be divisive,”

And yet it is. Just tell your local professor you are a creationist. He’ll make sure you never make it far.


35 posted on 04/21/2017 5:29:22 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: BwanaNdege
Yes, I realized that not long after my post (posting while multi-tasking? Not always sensible.)

The cartoon was, indeed, quite clever.

36 posted on 04/21/2017 4:03:02 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except for convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: mdittmar
From Earth Day in Boulder, Colorado





37 posted on 04/22/2017 5:05:09 PM PDT by BRITinUSA
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To: BRITinUSA
What's wrong with this picture?


38 posted on 04/22/2017 5:08:51 PM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: bar sin·is·ter

I know right… I guess everyone has a bad day with spelling..


39 posted on 04/22/2017 5:17:18 PM PDT by BRITinUSA
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To: BRITinUSA

What’s “Sciece”?

Global warming must have killed the “n”.


40 posted on 04/22/2017 5:26:07 PM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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