Protesters ‘Stand Up For Science’ At Rallies Nationwide | Blue Ghost Lunar Lander

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Scientists aren’t always encouraged to be politically active. But recent political interference by the Trump administration has many fired up. And, the Blue Ghost lunar lander, part of NASA’s CLPS initiative, completed the first fully successful commercial moon landing.

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0:00.0	Listener supported WNYC Studios.
0:11.2	This is Science Friday. I'm Flora Lichten.
0:16.3	Today, scientists and concerned citizens are taking to the streets in cities across the U.S. to protest
0:22.7	the Trump administration's science policies. Joining me to fill us in on the Stand Up for Science
0:28.0	rallies is Anil Oza, reporter for Statt and MIT based in Boston, Massachusetts. Welcome back,
0:34.6	Anil. Hey, Florida. Good to be back. Tell us about Stand Up for Science.
0:38.3	What is this rally all about?
0:40.2	Yeah, this is a rally put on by a handful of scientists to sort of support science.
0:45.1	It has a very vague goal, but it is to protest a lot of the movements that the Trump
0:49.0	administration has made to attack the scientific process and the institutions of science.
0:53.2	And where are the events?
0:54.6	So these events are going to take place across the country and actually across the globe,
0:58.2	but there are 32 official protests that are affiliated that are mostly in state capitals,
1:03.6	and the biggest one is in Washington, D.C.
1:06.2	But there'll be a lot of large ones in cities that are very popular sort of university
1:10.5	or research town. So I'm in Boston. That is slated to be a pretty big one ones in cities that are very popular sort of university or research town.
1:11.6	So I'm in Boston.
1:12.8	That is slated to be a pretty big one.
1:14.3	New York City is also slated to be pretty large as is Seattle and L.A.
1:18.1	Are the big science orgs standing up for the Stand Up for Science March?
1:23.5	No, they are.
1:24.4	And I think that's one of the key differences between this March and the science march that happened during Trump's first term, which is the March for Science.
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