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THE REAL SCIENCE GAP: ?It?s not insufficient schooling or a shortage of scientists. It?s a lack?

By Glenn Reynolds

THE REAL SCIENCE GAP: “It?s not insufficient schooling or a shortage of scientists. It?s a lack of job opportunities. Americans need the reasonable hope that spending their youth preparing to do science will provide a satisfactory career.”

UPDATE: A reader emails:

I work for a very large high tech company. I presently manage a research team in the corporate lab. The problem is that there is no encouragement for American non-minority males to go into science and engineering because we will almost never hire them. Instead we are being forced to look for technical females and under-represented minorities. Since very few American females choose engineering, we end up hiring Chinese and Indian women. The universities that I work with tell me that they find it almost impossible to recruit American males to PhD programs. I believe within less than a generation we will be in deep trouble, technically, in this country, and we’ll be without the means and capability to maintain the highly sophisticated civilization that we’ve constructed.

Ouch.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 27, 2010 (boomark / email).