You know shit is bad when Scientists are protesting on the streets

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You know shit is bad when Scientists are protesting on the streets.

It’s like Artists joining the SAS, Doctors becoming fire fighters or politicians doing something useful.

The tsunami of alternative facts in a post truth world where redneck fuckwits join forces with oil industry lobbyists to decry global warming as a socialist hoax is an affront to the social good that science provides us with and on a planet now facing catastrophic climate change, such ignorance is actually down right dangerous.

Scientists have been missing in action when it comes to public debate on the big issues confronting us, partly because they are so busy with expanding the total pool of human knowledge and partly because Scientists haven’t seen the need to champion science because it’s self explanatory as to why we need to listen to science.

Such assertions however mean little and nothing in a world where education and the training of a mind to critically think has been replaced with Google. The fact that climate deniers like Cameron Slater and Climate minimalists like David Farrar still hold positions of authority on the right shows how challenged science has become in our own country.

We need more scientists prepared to challenge the corporate interests hell bent on denying the truth and we need to protect those scientists from corporate smears and by ensuring strong whistle blower rules that can protect them when they go public with their concerns.

 

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