You Keep Using That Word

The March for Science is billing itself as “nonpartisan.”  Here’s the first sentence of the second paragraph of their website:

We are scientists and science enthusiasts. We come from all races, all religions, all gender identities, all sexual orientations, all abilities, all socioeconomic backgrounds, all political perspectives, and all nationalities.

Yeah, that could have been written by someone at the RNC.

Inigo Montoya might say:

The whole purpose of the March for Science is to squelch opposition to certain dogmas that are currently fashionable among scientific elites.  And I bet many of those same scientists would say that science is a self-correcting, ideology-free enterprise that prizes skepticism as one of its most important ideals.  Well, if the attitude on display by the organizers of the March for Science is what they mean by “skepticism,” Inigo Montoya might say . . .

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