Science is at war.

For those of you who have been following the goings-on of the Science channel recently, you may have noticed that a number of videos have been kicked out of the channel and that I have been working to clear the channel, both through moderation and writing, of unscientific sifts and other uninformed or misinformed postings, as well as sifts that are interesting but simply do not fit into the Science category. This has finally culminated in Qruel's latest Sift Talk post being thrown down the well, so that Science can be free.

Over the course of the next few weeks or months, the Science channel will be undergoing changes in moderation, setup, and control. And we will be launching the largest change in this history of the Science channel.

Science - that word's importance should carry a special significance for all of us today.

We can't be consumed by petty arguments with people who have no understanding or knowledge of science anymore.

We must be united in our common interest in and desire to discover more science.

Perhaps it's fate that today is the 6th of February, the day that the first human egg was fertilized in vitro in a test tube, and that today we will once again be striving for the good of Science, not for the fertilization of a single ovum - but for the fertilization of Science as a whole.

We will be fighting for our right to think, to know, to understand the world around us.

And as we begin on this day, the 6th of February will no longer be known as just one more day of the year, but as the day when the Sift declared in one voice:

"We will not go quietly into the night!

We will not vanish without a fight!

We're going to live on!

We're going to survive!

We're going to evolve!"

Today, we celebrate our Sciendependence Day!