Announcing: Science Counterpunch

Fighting back for science & scientists was never more urgent

For years, science and scientists have come under pressure from anti-science influencers, propagandists, conspiratorial crowds, deep-pocketed industries and politicians in power.

While the visibility and velocity of these attacks have increased general awareness and raised alarm in the wider scientific community, especially since the second Trump administration, many scientists feel trapped between a rock and a hard place. Institutions they thought would have their back either caved or got corrupted, played it safe in silence or tried to appease. Academic societies are slow to wake up and find their spine. And the press was all too often complicit in sanewashing insanity, simulating neutrality while justifying abuses of the aggressors and shifting blame onto scientists.

We have had enough.

When systems fail, when aggressors threaten, when we get suckerpunched by fascist goons and lose the first round, we don’t give up; we get back up and ready for round two.

This fight has just started, and in our corner there is plenty of reason for hope. We got the brains. We got the evidence. And more importantly, we got the extraordinary courage of ordinary people, scientists and citizens alike, to fight back and not relent when the going gets tough.

So join us, when we bring on scientists under pressure, science communicators, science journalists, activists to explain how to fight back for science.

Every episode will cover new case studies, hard-earned experiences and concrete solutions from people in the fight already. We need to listen and learn. And just maybe, their actions and insights will create a roadmap of effective actions for all of us too.

The time of lying flat on the mat is over.

Now we get up and fight for the future of science and democracy.

Check out our inaugural episode:

Get ready.