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Alan Alda: I cannot remain silent as Trump rejects science and endangers lives
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/29/alan-alda-vote-for-science-against-trump/Alan Alda is an actor, writer and co-founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University.
Almost 63 million people voted for Donald Trump in 2016, but in 1983, more than 106 million people watched the last episode of M.A.S.H. So, it seems that by this presidents standard, Im a bigger deal than he is.
But I dont write here as a formerly famous person; I write just as a citizen who might have something in common with you. After spending a decade doing everything I could to get the Equal Rights Amendment ratified, I made a decision 37 years ago to keep much quieter in public about my political opinions. If I was going to make a contribution, it should be by doing what I was good at: writing and acting.
Since then, Ive found that one of the things Im also good at is helping scientists communicate more clearly. Ive helped train more than 15,000 scientists around the world, so science is important to me as it is to all of us. We swim in a sea of science, and perhaps, like fish who take water for granted, we take science for granted. But without it, we would stop breathing.
Which is where we are now. Science is at stake, as is our very breath.
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Alan Alda: I cannot remain silent as Trump rejects science and endangers lives (Original Post)
ItsjustMe
Oct 2020
OP
"Trump once said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without consequences..."
regnaD kciN
Oct 2020
#3
sheshe2
(81,617 posts)1. Always loved the man.
He has another side to him that I was unaware of. Makes me admire him all the more.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)2. K&R!

regnaD kciN
(26,020 posts)3. "Trump once said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without consequences..."
"... At this moment, we are all on Fifth Avenue."