March for Science, Dublin, 22/04

biko wrote: »

Sounds less like a march for science than a march against Trump.

You can turn it into an antiTrump march if you like, but way to undermine it's purpose!

Many a good idea these days gets hijacked by the usual loons and people are then too afraid to challenge them. The Washington march for science cause quite a bit of controversy after is descended into intersectional political infighting about how lacking in diversity or failing to address LGBTQ issues the march.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/10/bill-nyes-march-for-science-role-helps-stir-politi/

Zuleyka Zevallos, a sociologist and adjunct research fellow with Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia, chronicled the march’s heated back-and-forth over diversity, which included four rewritten diversity statements as organizers reacted to criticism from both sides.


In a Jan. 28 tweet, the March for Science posted a tweet saying “colonization, racism, immigration, native rights, sexism, ableism, queer-, trans-, intersex-phobia, & econ justice are scientific issues,†but later removed it, Ms. Zevallos reported.


Among those who criticized the post was Harvard professor Steven Pinker, who accused organizers of compromising its goals with “anti-science PC/identity politics/hard-left rhetoric.â€
“The constant flip-flops on its diversity stance suggest that, at best, the organizers are undecided or lack the skills on how to manage inclusion issues,†Ms. Zevallos said in a March 14 post on Latino Rebels. “At worst, it gives the unfortunate impression that they have a wavering commitment to diversity, one which bends to the shifts of public pressure.â€
At the heart of the debate is that organizers are conflating science, which is a method, with a host of public policy issues, said Mr. Smith.
“The problem now is that many who claim to be about science are really about social policy and ideology,†he said, “which are not the same things at all.â€

I can see how US scientists may be affected by a change in the government administration.
So what are scientists in Ireland marching for? Support with their US peers in case Trump turn out to defund them?

If this gets hijacked by climate lobby then you will split this down along those lines and tbh you will risk to make science political.

This is one person's reasons
https://sciencemarchie.wordpress.com/2017/04/13/why-i-am-marching-caitriona-buggle/

So what is at stake if the current political trend of condemning science and scientific evidence continues?
To prevent this from ever happening we must all unite to support and celebrate science as a focal point within our societies and cultures.

In my humble opinion there is zero threat against science in Europe.
The threat against science in America is from the Christian loonies so for me it would be better with a March for Science and Reason against religion.

This is my I may go, to show my support with science over religious nuts.

Your Face wrote: »

My colleagues and I are marching to represent the Eugenics Society of Ireland.

Your presence will no doubt provide a fine argument for eugenics