"OTTAWA -- Several hundred Canadian scientists and their supporters held an unprecedented protest march on Tuesday to demonstrate against the government's decision to close down major facilities and fire research staff."

"The protesters, who say the right-of-center Conservative government dislikes science, walked through central Ottawa behind a woman dressed as the Grim Reaper and a coffin designed to mourn the 'Death of Evidence'.

'Evidence is the way that adults navigate reality. To deny evidence is to live in a fairy world ... when countries engage in fantasy it's called state propaganda,' Simon Fraser University professor Arne Moores told a crowd of around 800 people gathered on Parliament Hill."

David Ljunggren reports for Reuters July 10, 2012. [2]

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