A new study suggests the Department of Justice’s China Initiative investigations may have strengthened the foreign power by encouraging more scientists to relocate there.
  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    11 months ago

    American Research Universities have been in a nose dive for decades. Combine that with the increasing right-wing campus hysteria and declining pay scale for STEM workers, and is it any wonder that educated professionals are leaving the country in droves?

    I really have to wonder how a repeat of this shit will play out in the American Heartland. Sending all your Best and Brightest overseas while you bang the war drum with abandon.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
      192·
      11 months ago

      Also worth noting that US has been poaching talent from around the world in order to offset having an abysmal education system which makes US particularly sensitive to the problem of brain drain.