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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: 2) by VLM on Tuesday February 21 2017, @10:56PM
See that's exactly the kind of distractor I wanted to avoid, that turning it into a debate about the Canadian You Know Who people who claimed You Know What and all kinds of opinions on that topic isn't going to help keep the main line of the conversation on track.
But yeah, yeah. He posts really good physics mixed with WTF politics. I remember a couple years back his weird WTF post about women and feminism happened like he got drunk and shitposted worst than I've ever shitpost in my entire life, and everything blew the hell up for that guy for days. Or his recent "now we're all Iranians" which means he implies I'm tossing my gay coworkers off the roof of my building to kill them while simultaneously oppressing all the women in my family while plotting the nuclear annihilation of Israel because after all that's what Iranians do. How can a guy that smart, be so stupid in another context? Like the dumbest thing I ever did in ... woodworking lets say, was never as dumb as this physicist talking politics. Ugh.
He really is an excellent physicist worth the time to read. His political commentary... not so good.