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Margarid Turnamian, a clinical psychology graduate student at USC and organizer of the event, emphasized that funding cuts could be far-reaching because science is critical to everyday life. 

“Science affects every single person’s life on a daily basis,” she said. “Everything that we use: from our cell phones to the roads that we drive on, to the foods that we eat, to the way that we communicate, is based in science.” 

With the threat of federal funding cuts, Turnamian said she fears many people underestimate just how much they rely on scientific advancements. She pointed out that the economic argument against science funding — that it is not worth investing in — is misleading. 

“At the rally on Friday, one of the speakers, Duke Kahn, who’s a professor of psychology at USC, brought up a great statistic that every $1 that goes to NIH funding is returned into the economy at like $2.50,” she said.