March for Science, Why I March

Live from Washington, D.C.I will be heading to a satellite march in Doylestown, PA and speaking there. Here ' s what I will say:My name is John Mack and I live in Newtown.On Twitter I am known as PharmaGuy – that’s P-H-A-R-M-A, plus “Guy!” I PUBLISH a newsletter for the pharmaceutical industry. And I have a graduate degree in Biochemistry.Every day we benefit from medicines andvaccines created by scientists who work in pharmaceutical and government-funded research laboratories.We need to discover new drugs faster and defend efforts that make those drugs cheaper and more accessible to everyone.In doing so, however, we also need to defend the scientific methods the drug industry uses to prove that medicines WORK.A big part of that process is the Food and Drug Administration, which ensures that drugs are proven safe and effective throughrigorous clinical trials.Today the Food and Drug Administration and other science-based agencies like theNational Institutes of Health and theEnvironmental Protection Agency are under attack by the current administration,WHICH intends to increase SPENDING on the military and decrease SPENDING on these and other science-based agencies that help improve our lives.We should not have to sacrifice science for security.DEFUNDING science impacts us on a local level whether the issue is the quality of our air and water, fracking, opioid drug abuse, or the heroin epidemic.We need leaders who believe in data and scientific evidence to help sol...
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