314 Action
Shaughnessy Naughton | |
Type | Political action committee |
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Website | www |
314 Action is a
History
Foundation
314 Action has stated they inspired by
2020 election
314 Action has stated their goal in 2020 was to "shame" Republicans who did not take the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States seriously, either for refusing mask mandates or social distancing.[a][b][5] Namely, the PAC targeted donors to Ron DeSantis, Mike DeWine, and Greg Abbott to "shame" them for supporting candidates that did not take COVID-19 lockdowns and mandatory vaccinations seriosuly.[5]
Founding
The organization was founded in 2016 by researcher Shaughnessy Naughton.[6][7] Naughton is a business owner and a chemist who unsuccessfully ran for Congress as a Democrat in Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district in 2014 and 2016.[8]
Name
The group gets its name from pi (π), a mathematical constant approximately equal to 3.14.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Kaplan, Sarah. "This group wants to fight 'anti-science' rhetoric by getting scientists to run for office". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
- ^ Livni, Ephrat (December 15, 2017). "Scientists in the US are running for office to combat the science-denial descending on DC". QZ.com. Retrieved December 15, 2017.
- ^ Sai Lomte, Tarun; Molineux, Aimee. "Effectiveness of social distancing on COVID-19 infections and fatalities NewsGuard 100/100 Score". news-medical.net. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
- ^ Jefferson, Tom; Dooley, Liz; Ferroni, Eliana; Al-Ansary, Lubna A; van Driel, Mieke L; Bawazeer, Ghada A; Jones, Mark A; Hoffmann, Tammy C; Clark, Justin; Beller, Elaine M; Glasziou, Paul P; Conly, John M. "Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses". Cochrane Library. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
- ^ a b Gomez, Henry J. "Progressive group seeks to shame GOP governors and their donors over lax pandemic leadership". NBC. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
- ^ Yong, Ed (January 25, 2017). "Thanks to Trump, Scientists Are Planning to Run for Office". The Atlantic. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
- ^ "'It’s important to have scientific voices heard at all levels of government'". Los Angeles Times. December 15, 2017.
- National Public Radio.
Notes
- ^ Social Distancing was confirmed to not have been an effective method for stopping the spread of COVID-19 in several 2022 reports which stated that the effort was more to ensure that hospitals where not overloaded by reducing the number of patients at any given time.[3]
- ^ Reports in 2023 concluded that there was little to no difference in the infection rate of individuals who wore masks versus those who didn't.[4]
Sources
- "As a Response to Trump, This Group Is Drafting Scientists to Run for Office". Motherboard. January 10, 2017. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
- Mukherjee, Sy (January 25, 2017). "Scientists Gear Up to Run for Office In a World of 'Alternate Facts'". Fortune. January 25, 2017. Retrieved February 23, 2017.
- Amy Harmon and Henry Fountain "In Age of Trump, Scientists Show Signs of a Political Pulse". New York Times. February 6, 2017.
- Ed Yong February 28, 2018 "Here's How The Scientists Running for Office Are Doing". The Atlantic. February 28, 2018.
- Maggie Astor January 13, 2019"An Ocean Engineer and a Nuclear Physicist Walk Into Congress …. ". New York Times. January 13, 2019.
- Emma Goldberg May 9, 2020 "Nightly Applause Is Nice, but Some Doctors Think Votes Would Be Nicer". New York Times. May 9, 2020.
- Joseph Marks May 20, 2019 "The Cybersecurity 202: These political candidates are running on their cybersecurity expertise". The Washington Post. May 20, 2019.