March for Science Group

The HBO film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks debuts April 22!
Learn more about this incredible, important story:
https://www.theguardian.com/…/henrietta-lacks-cells-medical…
Read the op-ed issued by the Johns Hopkins Editorial Board: http://www.jhunewsletter.com/…/editorial-why-we-shouldnt-f…/
Find out how to support and contact the Lacks family: http://www.lacksfamily.com/

http://www.hbo.com/movies/the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | HBO FILMS | HBO Learn more about the HBO Film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, starring Oprah on HBO.com.

"Using the hard earned cash of the citizens, all of them—has constituted an enduring bond between the scientist and the public. It was clear that we were, as scientists, bound by the necessity to pay them back not in kind, but in knowledge and technology and health. And they, the citizens, took pride and well deserved ownership of our progress. I truly believe that this mutual investment and trust is what made science in the United States of America a model to follow for the rest of the world, and also gave us the tremendous progress of the last decades. Huge setbacks will ensue if this erodes.”


https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/trump-budget-cuts-science/519825/

Scientists Brace for a Lost Generation in American Research Private funding isn't enough to offset the president's proposed budget cuts, they say.

Check out NPR's show about the intersection of science and politics, featuring one of our organizers, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson!
"While the is political, it is not partisan," says. "Science has always been political."

http://the1a.org/shows/2017-03-07/march-for-science-dk

Should Science Be Political? Scientists are organizing an unprecedented march in April.

It's true: https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/our-mission-and-what-we-do