Then how about less money spent on the military industrial complex to instead care for its casualties? One per cent or so is all it would take. And little more again, to restore and maintain a decent level of scientific funding.

But that's not why they're protesting. It's because the Trumpsters are embarking on a village idiot crusade that could lay irretrievable waste to the planet – and the damage goes far beyond America.

If you think the advances made by science over the last century or so are over your head, I'm inclined to agree.