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No Future in American Science
An anonymous reader writes "Science Blog reports America is facing a dangerous shortage of eggheads: "America's top college graduates increasingly reject careers in science and engineering, researchers have found, raising concerns about America's technological future. Faced with the prospect of low-paid apprenticeships and training lasting a decade or more - and constricted job opportunities even after that - more of the brightest young Americans are instead pursuing the quicker and surer payoffs offered by business and certain professions.... 'With the notable exception of biological sciences, many of the top U.S. students with potential to become scientists are turning toward other career paths,' said one of the study's co-authors.""
It's because we have to compete with the Chinese. They in general have a much better undergrad education (in my physics program most of them came in with basically the equivalent of a Master's degree) and are much more highly motivated.
-josh
This is such an articulate and intelligent comment. I am quite sure this fellow has read the budget plan Bush proposed and has found such things as, "vast tax cuts to the richest 1% of the population". Being the "dumb fucks think you're middle class" kind of guy I must agree with him. I now have a new insight into my life as a slave to the man.
Idiot
Norris/Palin 2012
Fact: We deserve leaders who can kick your ass and field dress your carcass.
If native-born Americans are unwilling to take up science (which I don't think is really true, but anyway),
Really? Have you met any Americans recently? They're almost all idiots! Speaking as a native-born American myself, I can't decide whether I am more glad that the others are unwilling to take up science or surprised that they were even able to consider it an option.
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
Why am I doing this? Because I love it. Nonetheless, I would love it even more if I was given some props. AFAIAC, lawyers are scum (anyone going to disagree with me) who are in cahoots with the cops (disgruntled, fat, balding ex-jocks who are still in high school mode) and judges (ex-lawyers, determined to feed the system with dough to produce more cops, lawyers and judges), doctors are overpaid and overglorified mechanics (and they are WRONG many many times, especially when it comes to the care of the elderly) who are in cahoots with the insurance companies and the pharmecutical industry, and business people are money-grubbing wanted-to-be-something-else-but-couldn't-make-the- grade-in-college losers. Yet here all of these people make 10x+ as much as I will ever make, even at the peak of my earning years. It is a sad state of affairs. Anti-intellecualism is alive and strong in America, and I believe it is the root cause of this whole mess. Maybe if knowledge and research were better explained to the youth of this country, especially schoolchildren, things could change for the better in the future.