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The Rachel Maddow Show

American scientists take to the streets to protest Trump's cuts

The Rachel Maddow Show

MSNBC

Madow, Washington, Rachel Maddow, Congress, Campaign, Policy, Election, President, Nbc, Public, News, Government, Maddow, Politics, Issues

4.534K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

As Donald Trump guts the programs and agencies behind some of America's greatest scientific achievements and fires the people responsible for those achievements and working on new ones, scientists across the country from every discipline took to the streets in protest to "stand up for science."

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0:00.0

Thanks to at home for joining us. This hour. Really happy to have you here this Friday night. I love days like this. I love news days like this. There's so much to show you. Here's Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania today. People turned out to stand up for science. That was the name of the protest. To protest against the Trump administration's indiscriminate cuts to science in all ways.

0:22.0

You can see some of the signs here.

0:24.4

Fight for science.

0:26.1

Defend the NIH.

0:28.7

Defunding research is a recession plan.

0:31.6

That's actually quite true.

0:33.0

Here's a good one.

0:34.4

Quote, budget cuts create all kinds of trouble.

0:42.4

I had to look that up. Al-K-Y-N-E-S.

0:47.1

Al-K-Y-N-E-S. Al-K-K-N-E-S. Al-Kines are organic molecules made of the functional group carbon-carbon-triple bonds. They are unsaturated hydrocarbons. And budget cuts create all kinds of trouble.

0:56.9

Here's another good one in Pittsburgh. Got polio? No? Thanks, science. And you see where it

1:05.0

says it's a Berg thing and the SOC vaccine there. The University of Pittsburgh is where Jonas Sock

1:09.2

developed the polio vaccine.

1:12.2

Across the state of Pennsylvania, outside City Hall in Philadelphia, look at this.

1:17.4

This was the, I mean, this is impressive. This was the stand up for science crowd outside

1:22.9

Philly City Hall today. That's a big, look at that. That's a really big protest. Some good signs at the

1:30.1

Philly protest as well. Your policy, defund the NIH, has been rejected by peer review.

1:37.6

This is a good one. I feel like this one is special for Susan's birthday today. She loves Beaker

1:42.5

from the Muppets. Susan, this happened in Philly

1:45.7

today. This is the only orange Muppet I trust to tell me about science. Meep. A version of this sign we

1:55.5

saw a few different places today. I love trans mice. All right. I know you didn't listen to Trump's speech to Congress

2:02.7

this week. I saw the numbers. It was the least watched Trump, least watched Trump state of the

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