“Scientific research moves us forward and we should not allow asinine policies to thwart it”
“There needs to be a Scientists’ March on Washington,” wrote a Reddit user last week while discussing the Trump’s removal of the climate action page from the White House website.
And the idea seems to be taking off.
In fact, the official Twitter account for the march, @ScienceMarchDC, has gained over 60,000 followers in just two days.
And the event’s original Facebook group, which is now only accessible to members, had only a handful of subscribers on Wednesday morning but grew to more than 350,000 people by that evening.
It has never been more important for scientists of all stripes to come together and have their voices heard in government.
— March for Science (@ScienceMarchDC) January 25, 2017
According to the Huffington Post the organizers said in an email:
Scientists worldwide have been alarmed by the clear anti-science actions taken by the Trump administration. It has been less than a week and there have already been funding freezes and efforts to restrict scientists from communicating their findings (from tax-funded research!) with the public. These actions are absurd and cannot be allowed to stand as policy. This is not a partisan issue — people from all parts of the political spectrum should be alarmed by these efforts to deny scientific progress. Scientific research moves us forward and we should not allow asinine policies to thwart it.
“We are a diverse group of organizers focused on intersectionality both in the mission statement and the March itself,” they wrote. “We are including everyone in this movement.”
