(This story was published the day before the “March for Science, but it is still relevant)
Science seems to be under attack in America, so much so that scientists and their supporters are marching in the streets.
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| Rhetoric is one of the seven original liberal arts. |
President Donald Trump has publicly called climate change a “Chinese hoax” abetted by greedy scientists. He has linked vaccines to autism despite overwhelming scientific consensus against these claims. Vice President Mike Pence has denied evolutionary science, the very foundation of modern biology. Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s pick for director of the Office of Management and Budget, has questioned the fully established link between Zika virus and microcephaly and wondered whether “we really need government-funded research at all.”
In response, scientists are taking a stand. They are defending their work against what appears to be a new, more aggressive assault in the so-called “Republican war on science,” as the president threatens deep cuts to federal funding of scientific research.
When they march for science, they will do well to consider insights from the field of study known as the “rhetoric of science.”
Read the Yes! Magazine story by Leah Ceccarelli - “How the Ancient Art of Rhetoric Can Help Defend Science.”
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