WASHINGTON — Thousands of scientists worldwide left their labs to take to the streets Saturday along with students and research advocates in pushing back against what they say are mounting attacks on science. In London, physicists, astronomers, biologists and celebrities gathered for a march past the city’s most celebrated research institutions. The protest was putting scientists, who generally shy away from advocacy and whose work depends on objective experimentation, into a more public position. “The current (political) situation took us from kind of ignoring science to blatantly attacking it. RelatedThreats to science are heightened in Turkey and elsewhere in Europe, said McEntee, who planned to march with geophysical scientists in Vienna, Austria.

Source: National Post April 22, 2017 14:37 UTC