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Some Very Clever Signs from the March for Science

On Earth Day, April 22, millions of people hit the streets of Washington, D.C., and cities worldwide to March for Science. People thought of puns and put them on signs. 
A dog in favor of the scientific method making his bark heard. (Twitter @rowhoop)
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On Earth Day, April 22, millions of people hit the streets of Washington, D.C., and cities worldwide to March for Science.



The organizers of the march have framed it as a reproach against “an alarming trend toward discrediting scientific consensus and restricting scientific discovery.” Lead organizer Jonathan Berman, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, described it like this to the New York Times:

“Yes, this is a protest, but it’s not a political protest… The people making decisions are in Washington, and they are the people we are trying to reach with the message: You should listen to evidence.”

Speaking to Buzzfeed News, Bill Nye, one of several public leaders for the march, said:

“People are denying the facts of science in the world’s most influential economy. We’re marching to remind everybody of how much science serves you, a person, as a citizen in our society.”

Here are some of the clever signs participants of the march created: 

This dog is marking his bark heard. Will he also mark science as his territory?

PERIODIC TABLE DOG #marchforscience#Londonpic.twitter.com/Hz9E9Jipwo

— Rowan Hooper (@rowhoop) April 22, 2017

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