Tide of International Science Moving Against US, EU

explosivejared writes "The Economist has a story on the increasing scientific productivity of countries like China, India, and Brazil relative to the field's old guards in America, Europe, and Japan. Scientific productivity in this sense includes percent of GDP spent on R&D and the overall numbers of researchers, scholarly articles, and patents that a country produces. The article notes increasing levels of international collaboration on scholarly scientific articles in leading journals. From the article: '[M]ore than 35% of articles in leading journals are now the product of international collaboration. That is up from 25% 15 years ago — something the old regime and the new alike can celebrate.'" Note that the "old guard" are still firmly in the lead on these measures of scientific prowess, but the growth rate is higher in the newcomer states.

Comments

Just too bad

[countertrolling]

We here in the States have much more pressing issues at the moment... Science is for pagans and heathens

Re:Just too bad

[Whiteox]

HAIL Cthulu!
When the Great One returns, all will be revealed.

Re:Just too bad

[paiute]

I read that article and I think maybe they're trying to solve the wrong problem. Rather than training more priests to perform exorcisms maybe they need to stop looking for demons in everything.

When all you've got is holy water, every problem looks like a demon.

Re:Just too bad

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe molesting kids isn't sinful. Maybe it's what God wants. It's times like these when you just have to ask yourself, "What Would Jesus Do?", and friends, I believe the answer to that my very well be "Children".

Re:Just too bad

[Urkki]

I say make more people MBAs! We need more MBAs!!

(What do MBAs actually do? Cause at my work all they seem to do is regurgitate things I say and make very boring power point presentations with the same clip art and generic percentage data about general stuff)

MBAs talk to other MBAs. It takes an MBA to do that, really. Without MBAs in between, you don't know what engineers and other riff-raff would be up to. Just look at the OSS communities without MBAs, they're total disasters, no useful output what so ever, total waste of human resources.

Re:Just too bad

[mrvan]

Our Coder who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy namespace.
Thy pointers come.
Thy loops be done
in source as it is in binary.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our spaghetti code,
as we forgive those who spaghetti codes us,
and lead us not into the goto,
but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the editor,
and the compiler, and the linker,
for ever and ever.
Amen.

Re:Just too bad

[c6gunner]

So what prayers do I need to exorcise C++ threading bugs?

In the name of the Gates, the Torvalds, and the holy Jobs, I command you to leave this box NOW!

Re:obviously

[Anonymous Coward]

here is how it will end for USA

You mean, some pompous blowhard won't bother to write about it, but instead will just refer to another of his rants about how stupid everyone around him is?

Re:Here's the solution

[nbauman]

Oh God! A Republican.

Re:Here's the solution

[Godskitchen]

Oh God! A Borders assistant manager.

Re:some us schools think collaboration = cheating

[Anonymous Coward]

Some even think that collaboration on papers is cheating as well.

I dunno 'bout cheatin', but gotdangit, that sure sounds like communism to me! I mean, ain't 'collaboratin' what the Jews and the French did with the Nazis after the krauts bombed Pearl Harbor?

Re:Here's the solution

[Anonymous Coward]

We should support Teachers; however, My 8 year old student should also have the benefit of a Union.

Then tell her to get off her dead ass and organize.

Re:This just in...

[ScrewMaster]

Here, troll, have a candy bar.

Give him a few more, throw in some sugar cubes and a few cans of Red Bull. Maybe he'll get diabetes, fall into a coma and die. Evolution in action.

Re:patents/capita

[drsquare]

In the USA/Europe?UK faculty and employee unions impoverish their research institutions with demands.

Yeah, that's the problem, science workers just get paid too much money...

Re:Here's the solution

[Godskitchen]

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1239

Re:patents/capita

[aurizon]

Lincoln failed to free the Grad Stoonts, the last remaining underclass, whose tireless drudgery keeps the light on in America, what prescience...