Protesting - useful/gets things done or a waste of time?

[BlackLabel]

"Thousands of people have gathered in London to join a celebration of science amid fears research is under threat from a "post-truth" age and Brexit.

Scientists and celebrities were among those who turned out for the first March for Science, part of a string of events across the UK and the world."

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/am...

[glazbagun]

SpielBoy said:

Being surrounded by - and continuing to be surrounded by - like minded democracies is our biggest security advantage.

I'd agree with that. NATO was the stick, the EU was the carrot.

Why suck up to your fascist/communist dictator whilst starving when you could be with the Europeans eating jam today and tomorrow. Sadly the Eurozone and Sub Prime crises appear to have killed the Jam Tomorrow, but the benefits of the EU have still been pretty sweet these past 30 years and there is plenty of freedom swilling around Europe compared to the cold war days.

[MrBrightSi]

BlackLabel said:

"Thousands of people have gathered in London to join a celebration of science amid fears research is under threat from a "post-truth" age and Brexit.

Scientists and celebrities were among those who turned out for the first March for Science, part of a string of events across the UK and the world."

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/am...

"Less invasions, more equations"
fk me they're co-opting science for their feelings now. If it wasn't enough for south African students to piss all over science, we've got these absolute children trying to destroy it.

[Dindoit]

MrBrightSi said:

BlackLabel said:

"Thousands of people have gathered in London to join a celebration of science amid fears research is under threat from a "post-truth" age and Brexit.

Scientists and celebrities were among those who turned out for the first March for Science, part of a string of events across the UK and the world."

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/am...

"Less invasions, more equations"
fk me they're co-opting science for their feelings now. If it wasn't enough for south African students to piss all over science, we've got these absolute children trying to destroy it.

It's a Futurama joke. Also, fewer.

[MrBrightSi]

Dindoit said:

MrBrightSi said:

BlackLabel said:

"Thousands of people have gathered in London to join a celebration of science amid fears research is under threat from a "post-truth" age and Brexit.

Scientists and celebrities were among those who turned out for the first March for Science, part of a string of events across the UK and the world."

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/am...

"Less invasions, more equations"
fk me they're co-opting science for their feelings now. If it wasn't enough for south African students to piss all over science, we've got these absolute children trying to destroy it.

It's a Futurama joke. Also, fewer.

Right, well it seems that i was triggered by a cartoon. Which episode is it from? I enjoyed the first 2 seasons but can't remember that slogan.

[Don]

BlackLabel said:

"Thousands of people have gathered in London to join a celebration of science amid fears research is under threat from a "post-truth" age and Brexit.

Scientists and celebrities were among those who turned out for the first March for Science, part of a string of events across the UK and the world."

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/am...

Do we really need a march for Science? I know that EU money has been funding research but, so far, I have seen no suggestion that science funding would be cut overall? Once we're not paying into EU funded science we'll just have to fund some here ourselves.

Science does need to be international, mind. It is best with the whole world participating in advancing it.

IFL science, etc.

[Goaty Bill 2]

Don said:

Do we really need a march for Science? I know that EU money has been funding research but, so far, I have seen no suggestion that science funding would be cut overall? Once we're not paying into EU funded science we'll just have to fund some here ourselves.

Science does need to be international, mind. It is best with the whole world participating in advancing it.

IFL science, etc.

When you read this sort of thing is being taught in universities, you begin to wonder.
(sorry, it's the first link I could find - there is more, but I have to go out)

University of Toronto historian: Biological sex a ‘very popular misconception’

UoT Lecturer Matte said:

“Basically, it’s not correct that there is such a thing as biological sex,” Mr. Matte said last month on “The Agenda,” a Canadian talk show, adding that “for over 50 years scientists have shown that that’s not true.”

I should add - 'Mr.' probably mis-gendered 'them'.

ETA
A very short clip of the tenured lecturer stating this on public television.
No Such Thing As Biological Sex

Edited by Goaty Bill 2 on Sunday 23 April 16:19

[Lance Catamaran]

Harvard tells students that gender "can change from day to day"

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9079