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State of US Science Report Shows Disturbing Trends

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the from-a-head-start-to-no-child-left-behind-in-the-blink-of-an-eye dept.

coondoggie writes to mention that the National Science Board is concerned about certain indicators in the science and engineering fields for the United States. "For example, US schools continue to lag behind internationally in science and math education. On the other hand, the US is the largest, single, R&D-performing nation in the world pumping some $340 billion into future-related technologies. The US also leads the world in patent development."

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  1. Re:Sooo... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    because you are *throwing* money at them, compared to where they are from?

  2. Maybe hatred is part of the problem by Kohath · · Score: -1, Troll

    I wonder if it helps that the vast majority of science proponents profess hatred for ordinary religious folks and their beliefs? Why should normal churchgoing folks want to support their detractors and would-be oppressors?

    If science would go back to being about practical knowledge instead of partisan politics and anti-religious bigotry, maybe science could recover some of the good reputation it used to have.

    1. Re:Maybe hatred is part of the problem by celle · · Score: 0, Troll

      Well when religion decides to stop trying to castrate science maybe the bigotry will end. The partisan politics will end only when the big money does.

  3. Possible paradox explaination by MSTCrow5429 · · Score: 0, Troll
    "For example, US schools continue to lag behind internationally in science and math education. On the other hand, the US is the largest, single, R&D-performing nation in the world pumping some $340 billion into future-related technologies. The US also leads the world in patent development."

    Perhaps our freedoms, which while not spectacular, vastly outclass the rest of the world, allow our best and brightest to vastly outperform the best and brightest of more nations? If this is the case, the last thing we would want is to further centralize education into a mighty fist of the State.

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  4. Blacks and Hispanics - the destruction of WHITES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So, let me see... the ever increasing proportion of third world savages in the U.S. has nothing to do with this. No sirree...

    After all, the Jews keep telling us that "We're all the same" (only some are more equal than others, of course).
    And that blacks aren't far more likely to be heinous murderers and psychopaths with aggression problems, no sirree...

    Keep telling yourselves this... and in twenty years America will collapse, maybe in ten.