When the administration is politically hostile to science, science reasserting its importance is a political act. Not a risk, a goal.
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It is political. Science needs to be a factor in the political process.
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Well, science only needs to be political if one party is anti-science, and at this point they are.
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We agree that there should be action everywhere. That's why there are 500 marches across the world.
#ScienceMarchpic.twitter.com/mEwKGxMTno
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Someone please tell the subjects in the Tuskegee experiment that withholding penicillin from them wasn't political! Jesus F
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BTW I'm using "subjects" here deliberately because the people running that evil experiment didn't consider them to be fully human
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So confused about why this opinion is published when other complex discourse around the march is happening
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Science is _always_ political. It is dangerously wrong to pretend otherwise.
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The fight over the scientific consensus on human influenced
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How can it not be seen as political when the party in power rejects science?
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In this administration, advocating for truth IS political.
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The piece ignores the many satellite marches in the U.S. and globally, and that they're not an end point in the process, but the start.
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They are not separate, esp when those in power are doing everything possible to dismantle good research in this country.
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There is politics to everything so there is no separation
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
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To march for (more and better) Science IS a political statement!
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The administration is interfering in scientific research, misrepresenting data for political ends, trying to silence fed scientists.
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