Even though the Earth Day “March for Science” was primarily
aimed at the Trump Administration’s suppression of scientific research results,
has America’s political and religious persecution of science finally reached a
tipping point?
By: Ringo Bones
If you asked me, I wish that this year’s March for Science
that coincided with this year’s April 22 Earth Day festivities should have been
started back in 1996 to mark the moment that America’s radical right-wing Evangelical
Christians started interfering scientific results of the National Academy of
Science – especially ones that concern women’s health, climate change and
environmental pollution. Fat forward to the election of Donald J. Trump into the
U.S. presidency thanks to his “rhetoric” proclaiming that climate change is a
hoax invented by The People’s Republic of China to help make them sell wind
turbines and photovoltaic solar panels, many observant Christians finally
reached the point of “Holy Jesus Hitler Christ, enough is enough” to have
decided on this year’s Earth Day to march into Washington as a show of unity
that Donald J. Trump’s Alternative Facts is no solution to global warming and
sea level rise brought about by climate change due to man-made greenhouse gas
emissions from industrial activity.
Similar marches also happened around the world largely
inspired by the march on Washington D.C. At a demonstration in Washington D.C.,
Dr. Jonathan Foley, the executive director of the California Academy of
Sciences, said that research was being irrationally questioned, adding that
attacks from politicians – especially from the U.S. Republican Party – “amounted
to oppression”. According to Dr. Foley, skeptical politicians in DC are
specifically targeting science that protects our health – especially women’s
health – our safety and the environment. “Science that protects the most
vulnerable among us”, Foley said. In short, everyone the world over protested on
this year’s Earth Day against what they consider to be an “alarming trend”
among politicians for discrediting their research.