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From the I've-heard-enough-and-won't-take-it-anymore department, http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39024648
The BBC reports that former Congressman Rush Holt, now part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), is the spokesman for a movement "standing up for science".
His remarks reflect growing concern among researchers that science is disregarded by President Trump.
Scientists across the US plan to march in DC on 22 April.
[...] "To see young scientists, older scientists, the general public speaking up for the idea of science. We are going to work with our members and affiliated organisations to see that this march for science is a success."
Mr Holt made his comments at the AAAS annual meting in Boston as President Trump appointed a fierce critic of the Environmental Protection Agency as its head. Scott Pruitt has spent years fighting the role and reach of the EPA.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:10PM
Quantum computing researchers are likely to have more personal experience* with immigration than the current crew of WASPs in the White House. Where does Trump get his expertise on immigration policy? Breitbart News and Steve Bannon? AFAIK, there were no good arguments for the recent Executive Order on immigration. It was a mean-spirited and/or incompetent directive that scientists, tech companies, universities, hospitals, (the whole knowledge economy) and the courts recognized as such. You may not know this, but top scientists are in general pretty smart and worth listening to. Of course, Rush Holt may not be among them.
*Many grad students and post-docs are foreign and have to deal with immigration to work in the US.