Due to Trump's cluelessness and insistence on staying that way, a group of scientists has gotten together to encourage scientists to run for office, and is teaching them how to do that and access financial support.
Called 314 Action, the
organization is named after the first three digits of pi. It is a political
action committee that was created to support scientists in running for
office. It is similar to Emily’s List, which focuses on
pro-choice female candidates, or VoteVets, which backs war veterans, but the science version.
“A
lot of scientists traditionally feel that science is above politics but
we’re seeing that politics is not above getting involved in science,”
says founder Shaughnessy Naughton. “We’re losing, and the only way to stop that is to get more people with scientific backgrounds at the table.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/thanks-to-trump-scientists-are-planning-to-run-for-office/514229/?utm_source=atlfb
