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[[File:Earth Day March for Science 2017.jpg|thumb|200px|2017 March for Science/Earth Day event in Washington, DC]]

[[File:Earth Day March for Science 2017.jpg|thumb|200px|2017 March for Science/Earth Day event in Washington, DC]]

In addition to protesting the [[Trump Administration]]'s policies relating to [[climate change]] (most of the President's critical appointments in that regard downplay the role of human activity in this matter), the March for Science protested against the President's other actions relating to scientific research.  This includes steep cutbacks in government funding for basic research and immigration policies that discourage getting the best scientists from other countries.

In addition to protesting the [[Trump Administration]]'s policies relating to [[climate change]] (most of the President's critical appointments in that regard downplay the role of human activity in this matter), the March for Science protested against the President's other actions relating to scientific research.  This includes steep cutbacks in government funding for basic research and immigration policies that discourage getting the best scientists from other countries.

{{Cquote|Consider that in hospitals, every machine with an on/off switch that diagnoses your health without first cutting you open, is based on one or more principles of physics, discovered by physicists and chemists who had no specific interest in medicine. This includes the MRI, PET scans, CT Scans, EKGs, EEGs, ultrasound, and of course, good old fashioned X-rays. So if you defund one line of research in favor of another, you thwart the entire moving frontier of discovery.|||Neil deGrasse Tyson, April, 2017<ref>https://www.facebook.com/notes/neil-degrasse-tyson/science-in-america/10155202535296613/</ref>}}

{{Cquote|Consider that in hospitals, every machine with an on/off switch that diagnoses your health without first cutting you open, is based on one or more principles of physics, discovered by physicists and chemists who had no specific interest in medicine. This includes the MRI, PET scans, CT Scans, EKGs, EEGs, ultrasound, and of course, good old fashioned X-rays. So if you defund one line of research in favor of another, you thwart the entire moving frontier of discovery.|||[[Neil deGrasse Tyson]], April, 2017<ref>https://www.facebook.com/notes/neil-degrasse-tyson/science-in-america/10155202535296613/</ref>}}

==Political march==

==Political march==