Top Advisory Panel Warns Erosion of U.S. Science

fbg111 writes "From the NYT: A panel of experts convened by the National Academies, the nation's leading science advisory group, called yesterday for an urgent and wide-ranging effort to strengthen scientific competitiveness. The 20-member panel, reporting at the request of a bipartisan group in Congress, said that without such an effort the United States 'could soon lose its privileged position.' It cited many examples of emerging scientific and industrial power abroad and listed 20 steps the United States should take to maintain its global lead."

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I agree, but geeks have NEGATIVE traits also

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Sure, we're smart. But we're also frequently:

- Lazy
- Get bored easily
- Poor at communicating
- Often unattractive physically
- Overvalue intelligence and therefore often judgemental of others

I am confident and can admit these flaws and I personally share some of them.

Just don't get arrogant thinking you are the perfect human because you probably are not.

Let me guess, you're EUROPEAN

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I can just tell.

While you Europeans kill yourselves with tobacco and every other drug under the sun, at least some of us Americans still have morals.

While you Europeans bash our country incessantly, why not take an economics class or two and realize that your method of artificially trying to create jobs just doesn't work.

Making 40 hour a week full-timers work 30 hours a week so that others can work is not sound economics.

Oh, and the birth rate in Europe is much less than the 1-1 ratio needed to simply maintain the current population.

So, while we in the US will prevail fine, expect to see much of Europe continue to disappear over the next 100 years and be replaced by the stream of poor uneducated immigrants that are currently wrecking havoc in the UK and other places.