Science strikes back: anti-Trump march set to draw thousands to Washington

Scientists are ditching their labs for the streets in a mass protest against the Trump administration's war on facts, but will the effort resonate with skeptics?

On Saturday, thousands of scientists are set to abandon the cloistered neutrality of their laboratories to plunge into the the political fray against Donald Trump in what will likely be the largest-ever protest by science advocates.

The March for Science, a demonstration modeled in part on January's huge Women's March, will inundate Washington DC's national mall with a jumble of marine biologists, birdwatchers, climate researchers and others enraged by what they see as an assault by Trump's administration upon evidence-based thinking and scientists themselves.