Standing Up For Science in France

In the face of Trump’s administration’s relentless attacks on democratic institutions, civil rights, science, public health agencies, environmental regulation, and climate data collection, and as universities and research institutions across Europe also come under increasing pressure, the French scientific community is taking action. On March 7, 2025, scientists, educators, students, and concerned citizens will march and rally in cities across France to defend science and the humanities as pillars of democracy.

This mobilization is organized in solidarity with the "Stand Up For Science" movement, which emerged in the United States just weeks ago in response to repeated attacks by Trump and Musk on scientific institutions. Thousands of researchers, educators, students, and citizens committed to democratic rationalism will gather in more than 20 cities to demand that sciences remain free, independent and protected from political, religious, and corporate interference.

Trump’s administration is waging a full-scale war on scientific facts, jeopardizing decades of progress in critical fields such as climate science and public health:

• Government websites scrubbed of scientific data

• Established facts dismissed and distorted

• Political interference in scientific findings

• Deep funding cuts to research programs

• Mass firings of scientists and experts

This is more than just anti-intellectualism. It is outright censorship to serve powerful interests. When scientific truth is silenced or equated with mere opinion, the foundations of democracy itself are at risk.

source: text communicated by the French committee of Stand Up for Science

more information: https://standupforscience.fr/