Boston March for Science

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: dpreed () reed com
> Date: April 22, 2017 at 5:22:26 PM EDT
> To: bighook-issues () isen com
> Subject: [bighook-issues] Boston March for Science
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> So, if the speakers were supposed to be left wing anti Trump torchers and pitchforkers, they must have got lost and 
> gone somewhere else than Boston Common.
>
> I think the only reference to Trump by a speaker was a mention that between the main rally and the Kids March for 
> Science, there were likely more attendees than the Inauguration had.
>
> The kids march program was fantastic... Focus on what science is, demos, ... 
>
> But the main event was focused on science, diversity, the essential international nature of science research, 
> inclusion, the impacts of biological research, ... All but 3 of the speakers were not white males. Discussions 
> focused on how to make science even better, focusing on it's promise and it's problems. Inspiring talks that were 
> addressing the importance of standing up for science, and how anti science propaganda is growing on all sides.  
> Merchants of doubt, as we continue to see in tobacco, climate denial, antivax. The story of Trofim Lysenko was cited 
> as a parallel, careful to point out that we don't have Stalin, but we do have forces who want to shape science to  
> maintain power.
>
> I know scientists were afraid of their younger and more passionate peers raising hell. They didn't.
>
> Of course, you will see all kinds of commentators and politicians twisting and spinning, because their investment in 
> destroying science's credibility is enormous. But that ship sailed a long thin ago, when Peter Huber coined the term 
> "junk science" in service of his right wing agenda.
>
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