The March For Science In Washington Is Political Whether You Like It Or Not

Scientists and those who love science have spent many hours since the March For Science In Washington was born, hand-wringing about whether or not the march is 'political.' Most of those who are making requests--and in some cases, demands--that it "not be political" fall into one of two categories: white scientists, mostly men, and conservative scientists, also mostly men.

The former seem to want science to be what they've always assumed it was, based on their own fantasy-land perception of it: something pure, above it all, existing in rarefied air that biochemistry tells us would preclude the viability of most living, breathing organisms.

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