Welcome to the Esenar podcast number six on high education and science policy.

It is April 22nd, 2017, and in over 600 locations across the world, people are taking part in one great march for science.

The March for Science, born as an anti-Trump demonstration in Washington, D.C.,

has spontaneously caused this great participation of citizens who are concerned about a new wave

of irrational opinion-making and policies.

We have come to the rally in Berlin, Germany, to hear what people have to say.

I'm a scientist and I'm here to support other scientists and scientific endeavors.

I don't know, there seems to be a group of people out there in the world that don't,

you know, this whole alternative facts thing, and they don't

seem to want to accept science and accept facts.

Yeah, that's why I'm here, and I'm sort of afraid of this mentality that somehow it's okay to just

ignore science and facts and people who spend their lives devoted to truth and finding facts

and science. So I'm devoted to truth and finding facts and science.

So I'm here to contradict that mentality.

Yeah, I'm here to support science and to support reasoning,

which is the best way to go forward and to replace the things that are not yet good in our society.

I'm here because I'm against the belief or the opinion that climate change is just a hoax

and that vaccination is useless.

What I see in the people around me and many people even educated people is that because nobody gets sick anymore

because of a lot of diseases that we have vaccination against,

start questioning vaccination altogether.

But even I as myself having suffered medical problems after vaccination, I don't think vaccination should question.

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