“They don’t know what they’re marching for,” says climate statistician William M. Briggs in a lively interview with Discovery Institute Fellow Ray Bohlin. “They just know that they’re unhappy and they want us to know it too.”

The April 22 March for Science on the National Mall is ostensibly about, well, science, not least the science of climate change. But as Dr. Briggs points out, everything its organizers have said up till now indicates that science really isn’t the point for them and few know much about anything to do with it. The March will be much more about politics, power, status, and an amorphous sense of discontent that has come to define the ideological Left.

The word “diversity” is a stand-in for swirling sources of irritation that can never be assuaged. The March seems more like a planned, collective temper tantrum than anything else.

Bohlin and Briggs discuss the March and more on a new episode of ID the Future. Listen here, or download the podcast here.

See here for more on the April 19 Discovery Institute-Heritage Foundation panel discussion leading up to the event, “March for Science or March for Scientism? Understanding the Real Threats to Science in America.” Panelists include Stephen Meyer, Jay Richards, and Wesley J. Smith.

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