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posted by martyb on Tuesday February 21 2017, @12:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-ignoring-ignorance dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday February 21 2017, @10:35PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 21 2017, @10:35PM (#469911)

    The meta point about the first paragraph is we're both pretty annoyed at those misbehaviors. Most people are. Thats fantastic. The only thing worse than that misbehavior would be if the culture just shrugged its shoulders and went "eh".

    I'll toss out an archetype... journalist as court jester, some crackpot to laugh at while he does funny monologues. A lot of people go into journalism to "change the world" and a lot of people say journalists exist to inform. But when the rubber meets the road in a post-internet post-broadcast culture, journalists mostly exist as outsourced PR firms and humor.

    As far as Trump I'd just chill. The thing about that old orange dude is he has spent decades acquiring property, figuring out whats wrong with it, and fixing it. I mean sure old people go nuts sometimes or they screw up occasionally but he has a good track record. I'd trust him.

    WRT "gutting the EPA" dude... dude... wake me when the Cuyahoga River is on fire again LOL. What has he actually done in a concrete sense, not a mass media fake news fake urgency sense. I think he selected a boss who doesn't kiss leftist butt and sent some tweets. I'm just not seeing a problem.

    So, is your "strong man" worth sacrificing the country and what few values we have left?

    Sure, to the extent that the Cuyahoga River is currently on fire, to an equal level I'll sacrifice the country.

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  • (Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Tuesday February 21 2017, @11:12PM

    by Zz9zZ (1348) on Tuesday February 21 2017, @11:12PM (#469924)

    I prefer my environment to NOT be on fire before I take steps to protect it thankyouverymuch.

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    ~Tilting at windmills~
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @03:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @03:34AM (#469976)

    This will probably be lost in the noise since I'm late to this thread, but here goes:

    > As far as Trump I'd just chill. The thing about that old orange dude is he has spent decades acquiring property, figuring out whats wrong with it, and fixing it. I mean sure old people go nuts sometimes or they screw up occasionally but he has a good track record. I'd trust him.

    You need to look deeper, perhaps read a few chapters of "The Making of Donald Trump". Then you might realize that what Trump has done is very much like other large developers, many of whom have been tried and found guilty. Trump got other people to fix up his property, meanwhile figuring out how to hire cheap labor, work with the mob (through connected lawyers) to control construction unions, and in many cases not pay his suppliers. He's also avoided taxes for many years, lied to casino regulators and on and on. IMO, developers as a class are about as sleazy as it gets, using bully tactics to get their way at all costs.