The Smartest Signs From The #StandUpForScience Protest

If nothing else, 2017 has been one hell of a good year for protests. From the Women's March to the fight against the Muslim ban to everyone who bravely stood with Planned Parenthood, Americans are not taking recent political disasters lightly. And today's #StandUpForScience rally is no exception.

The Boston Globe reports that hundreds assembled in Copley Square to fight for the validity of science in today's world of "alternative facts." Rally participants ranged from Harvard and MIT professors to biomedical engineers to middle school teachers. One uniting factor: Their protest signs were pretty stellar.

One father-daughter pair, Glen McDonald and Lyra Ericson, carried corresponding signs that read "Think" and "Earth - Science = Death." Brutal, but true.

“Without science there’s no America,” McDonald told the Globe. “Without science we don’t have anything.”

Before the protest, climate scientist and rally speaker Astrid Caldas explained that everyone benefits from science; it's the opposite of elitism. “I hope to make the point that scientific facts are not replaceable,” Caldas added. “Scientific facts are scientific facts, they are not alternative facts.”

Science is indeed here for the masses — and as today's rally shows, it seems that the masses are showing up to support science, too. Check out some of those folks' smartest protest signs below.

Best sign ever. #standupforscience rally #sciencematters #ScienceMarch pic.twitter.com/BGmr9JiOoO

— AltUSFWS (@AltUSFWS) February 19, 2017

I can't tell you how many older people have come up to me today to say, "I remember polio. Thank you." #standupforscience #AAASmtg pic.twitter.com/hrkIY3d5wh

— Kathleen Bachynski (@bachyns) February 19, 2017

On this disturbingly warm winter day, we #StandUpForScience. pic.twitter.com/NY8vWl3Wxa

— Jill (@jillysull) February 19, 2017

#standupforscience #protestisthenewbrunch

A post shared by Sarah Clark (@trisarahtops_730) on Feb 19, 2017 at 10:53am PST

#standupforscience Rally for Science

A post shared by Richard Smyth (@rsmyth64) on Feb 19, 2017 at 10:04am PST

#standupforscience

A post shared by Amy Lynne Grzybinski (@saltheartedbarmaid) on Feb 19, 2017 at 9:32am PST

Stand up for science! #copleysquare #standupforscience #boston #bostonprotests #trinitychurchboston #marchforscience #marchforsciencebostonchapter

A post shared by Karen Meninno ~ Sculptor (@kiranofindaly) on Feb 19, 2017 at 10:23am PST

Scientific facts shouldn't be political. But defending our right to pursue them is.

Thousands out today to do just that. #StandUpForScience pic.twitter.com/0xTjZh6ORk

— Collin Rees (@collinrees) February 19, 2017

#StandUpForScience #aaasmtg #MIT

A post shared by Fossil Free MIT (@fossilfree.mit) on Feb 19, 2017 at 8:23am PST

#standupforscience #copleysquare

A post shared by Laurie Thomas (@properbostonian) on Feb 19, 2017 at 9:39am PST

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