I wasn’t at either the local or natiinal event. But from press accounts, it doesn’t sound like they are going to do much good for science. Which has been aeen as a bipartisan cause for nearly 80 years, at least. But these events sound like anti-Trump, pro- the current (radical)leftwing movement.
Way to go, turn restoring medical and energy research, among others, which should be very easy bipartisan issues, into parts of the radical left movement. Brilliant!
Patrick Phillips
04/23/2017
I agree that this is not the way that I would have approached it. These should be inherently non-partisan issues, although the whole-scale rejection of evidence-based decision making does unfortunately make it a more partisan issue at present.
Here is an extended twitter thread on this subject that I put out right after the march:
Even so, it was great to have ~2,000 community members out in support of science. It is very difficult for folks not to allow general frustrations creep into every public event. I do think that it would be more effective to keep each rally focused on the stated topic of the rally so that people passionate about that topic feel fully engaged in the intent. This is a general issue for the several things that I have attended in Eugene recently.
New Year Cat
04/24/2017
Apparently this week’s Climate Rally in Eugene is going to be more “climate and other stuff” which weakens the focus. I was happy to march for “Science” and would give up another middle-of-Saturday for “Climate” but not so much for “Everything We Think Is Wrong”.
I wasn’t at either the local or natiinal event. But from press accounts, it doesn’t sound like they are going to do much good for science. Which has been aeen as a bipartisan cause for nearly 80 years, at least. But these events sound like anti-Trump, pro- the current (radical)leftwing movement.
Way to go, turn restoring medical and energy research, among others, which should be very easy bipartisan issues, into parts of the radical left movement. Brilliant!
I agree that this is not the way that I would have approached it. These should be inherently non-partisan issues, although the whole-scale rejection of evidence-based decision making does unfortunately make it a more partisan issue at present.
Here is an extended twitter thread on this subject that I put out right after the march:
https://twitter.com/granex/status/855893581374005248
Even so, it was great to have ~2,000 community members out in support of science. It is very difficult for folks not to allow general frustrations creep into every public event. I do think that it would be more effective to keep each rally focused on the stated topic of the rally so that people passionate about that topic feel fully engaged in the intent. This is a general issue for the several things that I have attended in Eugene recently.
Apparently this week’s Climate Rally in Eugene is going to be more “climate and other stuff” which weakens the focus. I was happy to march for “Science” and would give up another middle-of-Saturday for “Climate” but not so much for “Everything We Think Is Wrong”.