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Tomorrow is the March for Science. Who's going?

 
 
 
How are we validating that this march is for science? What's the methodology being used?
 
I am going with this sine:
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Damn you kids and your science.

Yep it's what I am doing on my birthday. Then I will eat a cupcake.
 
Tom Sawyer said:
How are we validating that this march is for science? What's the methodology being used?
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I am concerned that this will degenerate into yet another partisan march.
Yes, climate change is real but that doesn't mean that we can turn off fossil fuels tomorrow or that we no longer need pipelines. Much less that we should take superstitions of black snakes seriously.

And what about other scientific issues that it's the left which is blocking? Thirty Meter Telescope, which will probably have to be built on Canary Islands because a small minority (>70% of Hawaiians support the project) is opposing it on religious grounds. Or how about GMOs. Or nuclear power.
 
I will probably show upatch the one in Toronto, but I have to say the speaker list is very disappointing. Two of them are billed as essentially pseudoscience at best... Experts in native natural healing etc. Another is about women's studies (and not women in science or scientific studies on sex or gender).

This is really depressing to me to see. Are there not more actual legit scientists they could have speaking. Even some random grad students would beat this list.
 
Jolly_Penguin said:
I will probably show upatch the one in Toronto, but I have to say the speaker list is very disappointing. Two of them are billed as essentially pseudoscience at best... Experts in native natural healing etc. Another is about women's studies (and not women in science or scientific studies on sex or gender).

This is really depressing to me to see. Are there not more actual legit scientists they could have speaking. Even some random grad students would beat this list.
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We got real science guys to come to ours, but I don't think they will have their time machines with them.
 
I'll be going to the Houston march. Seems to be something of a meme that science shouldn't be partisan. But the political right wingers are the ones making anti-science politics an issue. So politics is an issue because of the right wing's anti-intellectualism. Here in Texas, we have sent some of the worst of these far right fools, like Lamar Smith, and Louis Gohmert to Congress. And placed some of them in charge of committees where they can do the most damage to science.
 
What we are worried about here is the cuts to the NIH/NSA. This is a huge driver of our economy.

I'll be marching tomorrow.
 
1/3 of those who say they will march are actually going to march for science.
1/3 are going to a black civil rights march to determine if there is a statistical difference in what type of march is attended.
1/3 will stay home as control group.
 
I'm hoping to get out to the rally in DC (it's actually a great deal more than a march, activities started...yesterday, I think), but between a fairly nasty illness and a prediction of rain, I'll most likely stay home :(

It'll likely be somewhat partisan, mostly because it's usually the GOP that's suggesting boneheaded budget cuts (National Weather Service? We can just use the Weather Channel instead!), and Trump has been particularly nasty in this regard, but it's also aimed at getting younger people interested in science, and a good hard glare at dems who can be pretty foolish about it as well.
 
Looks like its just going to be an SJW circle jerk:

http://www.acsh.org/news/2017/02/02/why-scientist-wont-be-attending-science-march-10811

I think I'll just stay home. I have a degree in Physics, but it looks like white males aren't particularly welcome to the event, despite an almost pathological obsession with diversity on its website. I'll be sure to watch some of the speeches on Youtube, though. I expect there will be some real gems. Maybe Lena Dunham will give a speech with a bunch of "sciency sounding" gender buzzwords!
 
Derec said:
Thirty Meter Telescope, which will probably have to be built on Canary Islands because a small minority (>70% of Hawaiians support the project) is opposing it on religious grounds.
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You know what you never see? Derec-based clickbait.

"Someone derails a science flavored thread with yet another comment about Mauna Kea. The poster's identity will surprise you!"
 
Keith&Co. said:
You know what you never see? Derec-based clickbait.
"Someone derails a science flavored thread with yet another comment about Mauna Kea. The poster's identity will surprise you!"
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Derail? Dafuq are you talking about?
TMT and the political blockading of its construction is a legitimate science issue, that should definitely be a part of this "Science March". I very much doubt though that it will be welcome given their priorities:
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Derec said:
Keith&Co. said:
You know what you never see? Derec-based clickbait.
"Someone derails a science flavored thread with yet another comment about Mauna Kea. The poster's identity will surprise you!"
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Derail? Dafuq are you talking about?
TMT and the political blockading of its construction is a legitimate science issue, that should definitely be a part of this "Science March". I very much doubt though that it will be welcome given their priorities:
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Gawd. Wonder how many of these "March for Science" folks are believers in the "blank slate"; or claim there is no biological basis to sex or gender; or assert that intelligence and behavior are not heritable. Seems real scientists would avoid any association with this moonbattery.

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