By: Hayo
The problem of the US according to the OECD PISA study is that more than 48% of highschool students do basically not understand science. In Finland (the best Western country in the comparison), this is...
View ArticleBy: Ian Durham
What the world needs is not necessarily what the market demands. I think we DO need more scientists and engineers, but NOT mediocre ones. Present employment trends are NOT indicative of what we need,...
View ArticleBy: becca
Seriously? You want to hold up Woodward as someone born to do science? That’s a GREAT way to ensure no one with any intelligence would WANT to go into science.
View ArticleBy: A.
Certainly agree. However, it’s a deeper hole. First, one should take a look at the statistics of how many of the graduate students in the US are actually American. American education does not favor the...
View ArticleBy: Kaviani
Nonpolitical funding is a major issue, too. Too often, corporate R&D amounts to disproving rival claims and cherry picking data to satisfy corporate policy. This leads to brilliance and innovation...
View ArticleBy: bill carlson
To give you an idea of the fantastic shortage of scientists and theoretical physicists we have – I scored an 800 on the math SAT and got two Masters Degrees – one of them a Master of Engineering degree...
View ArticleBy: Cpt. Capitalism
Agreed to a certain point, but the labor market shows the true reality – that engineers and STEM degrees are in more demand than sociology or any other “study” that avoids math and rigor at all costs....
View ArticleBy: Ulmer
1. We do not need more mediocre scientists. Amazingly, I have seen biochemical research become robotic. 100 mid-level scientists could not compete with one robot which fills 1200 nano liter samples in...
View ArticleBy: Jared Beekman
Fix our primary education system. Let those who want to destroy their lives do so, and let those who wish to excel have the chance. Prison guards, law enforcement, and emergency medicine specialists...
View ArticleBy: RJD
Nothing like getting a social theory from a Chemist. Obviously the author subscribes exclusively to the “great man” theory of science. A common but highly dubious mythos holds that science proceeds...
View ArticleBy: SomeAnonymousGeek
I also graduated with a MS in engineering from an Ivy League school. It amazed me, almost all my job offers were with hedge funds. I took the one job I found in R&D. Now, one year after graduation,...
View ArticleBy: Paul S.
The USA doesn’t need more scientists and engineers doing simple work for companies where highly skilled and very smart doesn’t matter. Or doing these studies or work on some totally useless and obvious...
View ArticleBy: Julius Mazzarella
I completely disagree with the authors statement that we do not need more scientists and engineers. Certainly, the Von Neumann’s, Einstein’s, Tesla’s, Maxwell, Faraday, the list is endless …they were...
View ArticleBy: Tom
I’ll agree heartily with this article. From an early age, I had a passion for electronics. As I started my college education, this passion only increased. Twenty years later, I’ve met some of my former...
View ArticleBy: Student
Finally! I’m a Cancer Biologist working on my PhD and none of my peers are able to find jobs. People that have great publication records, communicate clearly, network, etc. There is just nothing out...
View ArticleBy: Vince
Julius Mazzarella, your comment is unfortunately flawed. ‘Producing genius’, such as a von Neumann, isn’t coupled to the production of PhDs. Individuals who possess such extraordinary talents exist...
View ArticleBy: BWA
The difference between a great scientist and a mediocre one is often the environment they grew up in, i.e.: the education system. Why are we totally wasting questionable teaching talent on creationism...
View ArticleBy: Laurel
Scientists and engineers need a place to work and there are fewer and fewer worthy employment opportunities for them. As American companies have shifted factory work overseas, they are now exporting...
View ArticleBy: Laurel Simon
We do not need more engineers, or better engineers. We need R & D Money. All the really great engineering brains are sitting at desks, begging for money to enable them make great discoveries. The...
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