Posted on 03/08/2025 11:05:50 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Giving a new meaning to the phrase mad scientists, angry researchers, doctors, their patients and supporters ventured out of labs, hospitals and offices Friday to fight against what they call a blitz on life-saving science by the Trump administration.
In the nation’s capital, a couple thousand gathered at the Stand Up for Science rally. Organizers said similar rallies were planned in more than 30 U.S. cities.
Politicians, scientists, musicians, doctors and their patients made the case that firings, budget and grant cuts in health, climate, science and other research government agencies in the Trump administration’s first 47 days in office are endangering not just the future but the present.
“This is the most challenging moment I can recall,” University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann told the crowd full of signs belittling the intelligence of President Donald Trump, his cost-cutting aide Elon Musk and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Science is under siege.”
Astronomer Phil Plait told a booing crowd, “We’re looking at the most aggressively anti-science government the United States has ever had.”
Rally co-organizer Colette Delawalla, a doctoral student in clinical psychology, said, “We’re not just going to stand here and take it.”
Science communicator, entertainer and one-time engineer Bill Nye the Science Guy challenged the forces in government that want to cut and censor science. “What are you afraid of?” he said.
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Ay - Pee
Science to a lot of these jokers is just another term for government grants.
$cience!
AP propaganda. Why bother?
> University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann told the crowd… <
Climate Change research is done in almost a fascist manner. Data is manipulated to fit the narrative. And anyone who objects is shouted down.
Any “scientist” who mindlessly backs that fraud is not really a scientist.
Good riddance to them.
That’s nice. I don’t care.
What about “science” when discussing “transgenders”??????
The’re baffled
And whoever said that healthcare based on the voluntary DIRECT cooperation between doctor and patient - the best healthcare system the world has known - is somehow not healthcare because gov't is not involved?????
Remember, what gov't does best is KILL. Gov't's greatest achievement in "healthcare" is the infanticide of millions of unborn.
NUKE UNCONSTITUTIONAL GOV'T HEATHCARE AKA DEATH PROTOCOL!!!!
To liberal/leftist/commies, science is only right and viable when it covers what they want it to cover....
That guy is a "scientist" the way cats are dogs.
They should have taken up a collection for Mann. He came out on the short end of the “stick” on his 13 years of frivolous litigation by a couple hundred grand in attorneys he had to pay to National Review
Weird no one remembers other admins chopping block cuts.
They can't see the forest while focusing on one tree. The forest is doomed unless President Trump makes drastic changes.
We're deeply in debt due to Biden and the Democrats. Unsustainable, will lead to the collapse of the USA. After a collapse, there will be no future for science, and the present is endangered as well. Only President Trump and his economic policies can rescue our future. There will be pain while we tighten our belts and some will go hungry. Get used to it, in the short term. At least we will survive as a nation.
Or the “science” of covid
The “science” of “vaccines”
Their “science” sounds a lot like a mugging in a back alley.
Lol.
The FSA is unhappy.
(Free S*&^ Army)
Government ‘science’ contracts brought is Fauci’s illegal gain of function research that caused the covid epidemic.
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