When we first checked in on the March for Science, there was little more than a skeletal web page and a pledge that the march was open to “anyone who values empirical science. That’s it.”
Well, not quite. The organizers did declare early on that there were certain things they accepted “as facts with no alternatives,” including anthropogenic global warming and evolution. And there were some bugs to work out in the mission statement when it came to ensuring diversity and inclusiveness.
Don't forget, the March for Science is this weekend, and it's all about #science pic.twitter.com/lbFjwoBT2o
— Jason (@jasonelevation) April 21, 2017
The March for Science was absolutely about science, and since march co-chair Bill Nye declared earlier in the day that science is political, there was no reason the event had to shy away from politics.
Bill Nye: "Science is political" https://t.co/ykTUfoV5Hn pic.twitter.com/7pbAmuLJxM
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 22, 2017
Real scientists disagree
— Roy Cozart (@cozart_r) April 22, 2017
If your science is political then you're not doing science.
— Andrew the Celt (@Andrew_the_Celt) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/TCoop6231/status/855935040441602048
https://twitter.com/jacobperry/status/855932148792123393
https://twitter.com/seanagnew/status/855922941875408896
Bill Nye is the Kim Kardashian of science.
— Emily Zanotti’s Great & Unmatched Wisdom (@emzanotti) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/CaseyMattox_/status/855870735482589185
You think?
— Michael New (@Michael_J_New) April 22, 2017
DUDE! Get out! No way – it's all about sciency stuff!
— Uncle Jimmy, Chosen by God and Rick Perry (@jneutron1969) April 22, 2017
Even if he was just another white male dominating the conversation, Nye called out his fellow white males in positions of power who are “deliberately ignoring and actively suppressing science.”
Bill Nye slams lawmakers who are "deliberately ignoring and actively suppressing science" at the DC #MarchforScience https://t.co/yI22FpPhzv pic.twitter.com/akSy03Gwcv
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/MangyLover/status/855924352176541696
https://twitter.com/CounterMoonbat/status/855826581402644480
Nye really did have a cozy relationship with the Obama White House, flying on Air Force One from D.C. to the Everglades to draw attention to climate change, so it’s no surprise he’s more at home among the resistance these days.
CNN’s three-minute clip does label Bill Nye a scientist (fact check, please), but there appears to be some footage missing that causes it to skip from some political talk to scientists saving the world, a pretty transparent plug for his new Netflix series, “Bill Nye Saves the World.”
Bill Nye is back with a new show — and he wants to save the world https://t.co/RstmcGVYZ0 pic.twitter.com/fOZgiS6Kyp
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 22, 2017
So, there’s the March for Science for you. Any questions?
OK what am I not getting about the March for Science? Because to me it seems utterly devoid of a point or any narrative cohesion
— Elizabeth Nolan Brown (@ENBrown) April 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/BossClaw/status/855777737914671104
https://twitter.com/Politillogic/status/855919981472747521
It's just another confusing March without a consistent message. Oh except the Trump hate thing. #marchforscience
— A Meh Gal ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (@GallSueJoe) April 23, 2017
#MarchForScience in a nutshell (where it belongs). pic.twitter.com/skbdC5RgPq
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) April 22, 2017
People like marching when there's a Republican in the White House.
— JAVCore ? (@TheJavcore) April 22, 2017
They really do. Chalk that up next to evolution and man-made global warming as another of those facts without an alternative.
Yay Scince! #marchforscience #ScienceMarch pic.twitter.com/aViMQvBXwI
— Renna (@RennaW) April 22, 2017
people just want to be part of something, they just don't know what – and protests seem to catch a lot of publicity lately
— Joe Hefferon (@HefferonJoe) April 22, 2017
"March" – an activity with a veneer of substance but basically a political mechanism with an intent to deceive
— Chris Wray (@chriswray3) April 22, 2017
1) Virtue signaling
2) Religious zealotry masquerading as empiricism.— Rob McMillin (@scareduck) April 23, 2017
It's designed to signal that they deserve to be our masters, not mere peers. Also, none of those goofy losers has anything better to do.
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) April 22, 2017
Love trumping hate at the #MarchForScience. pic.twitter.com/h4zDfuKsCm
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) April 22, 2017
Climate, no? So funding but also staffing and general prioritization of the climate crisis
— .@kristoncapps (@kristoncapps) April 22, 2017
Government funding of research is clearly a goal; Nye named clean water and reliable electricity as just two of the benefits science has brought to the world, so who knows what the government hopes to find with million-dollar-plus experiments like “mudskipper on a treadmill.”
Another of those taxpayer funded research projects last year involved observing if female moneys spent more time observing male monkeys’ genitals in front of a red background, which reminds us …
Here again is that clip of Bill Nye (in front of a blue background) doing his comedy act before he developed the “science guy” character and found work as a TV host and fame as America’s preeminent scientist.
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