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• Lerner: A Problem with Science – and Voters

  For most of his four years as chair of the...
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  La Botz: Tens of Thousands March for Science

  There were some 400 marches in the US
• Klabusich: In Defiance

  Anti-Science Trump Administration Draws Thousands to the Streets Worldwide
• People: Which Way for Science?

  Science has the potential to be a force of liberation but is frequently complicit in systems of domination. Let us join with all those engaged in liberatory struggles
• Lerner: Why They March

  “Science and Scientists Are Now Under Attack”
• Suzuki: March for Science on Earth Day

  Drastic cuts to science-based agencies like the EPA are galvanizing scientists worldwide
• Rogers: The March for Science

  It’s no coincidence that Earth Day, the first anniversary of the signing of the climate agreement and the March for Science are all taking place on the same day, April 22. It is the people’s day
• LaPier: Marching for Science

  We need to remind not only policymakers but also citizens of the United States that science is important and that science can help communities make decisions
• Oransky: Should Scientists Engage in Activism?

  Have you heard that scientists are planning a march on...
• Williams: Will science go rogue against Donald Trump?

  Scientists must grapple with politics and resist political reaction in order to be more effective
• Price: Tyrannic Man’s Dominion: Trump Era Physical Sciences Approaching Social Sciences’ Marginal Status

  Trump is remarkably frank about what he doesn’t want to know; he intends to limit the impact of independent science on informing the policies of his administration
• Wessel: The marches for science, on one global interactive map

  “the time has long passed where it’s OK to stay silent”
• Spode: Tom Wolfe’s Reflections on Language

  Tom Wolfe’s most recent book, The Kingdom of Speech, is a literary Sharknado of error and self-satisfaction, with borderline racism and anti-Semitism mixed in. It careens between being hilariously bad and tragically bad. It is irredeemable
• Yong: The Inevitable Evolution of Bad Science

  A simulation shows how the incentives of modern academia naturally select for weaker and less reliable results
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  Street: Homo Sapiens in the Exterminist Age of Capital

  The project of building a united, militant, revolutionary, organized, durable, environmentalist, powerful, antimilitarist, and global Left is now an urgent life or death matter for many of us and for future generations
• Dolack: Killing ourselves with technology

  What do we do when technology spirals out of our...
• Horgan: Dear “Skeptics,” Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More

  A science journalist takes a skeptical look at capital-S Skepticism
• Godrej: Technology as if people mattered

  If you thought technology was politically neutral, think again
• Edwards: The Water Next Time

  Professor Who Helped Expose Crisis in Flint Says Public Science Is Broken
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  Podur: Vaccinations and the War on Science

  Donald Trump's championing of the "anti-vaxer" cause takes advantage of scientific illiteracy