When Trump killed the NIH, he killed billions in research overheads to universities which went into the operating costs of teaching STEM. So they need to make up the shortfall.
The net result is no one will pursue science as a career, because they could never afford the debt. Duke was always an institution of stupid rich kids, but now even medicine is not worth it. So our best will be working in finance figuring out how to steal from pension plans.
The system filled in the gap with PhD post docs from abroad on H1s, but Trump killed that as well. The net result is US colleges will tumble from world research rankings as investigators leave and labs atrophy and die. This means no new biotechs, no new drugs, and eventually the death of US Pharma. Make no mistake, the government in the US is both anti science and anti intellectual.
Here’s the irony already: a Cuban research institute has developed NeuralCIM, a successful treatment for dementia. Effects in trials far exceed Leqembi without the danger of brain bleeds. But the US government would rather let their own brains rot than allow the drug to be sold in the US. US Tourists are flying to Havana for the drug, and they are being charged a whopping $25 for 10 doses. The future of STEM is in anywhere but the US.
100%. Heck I am stem and moved to IT in the 90’s. Calling it stem is kinda funny because its been more tem or te or just T for the last two decades. As you point out even becoming a doctor is becoming not worth it. Obvisouly the people going into it see it worth it outside of compensation but you don’t get compensated for over a decade before you do and it can’t catch up to the loss.
That’s just tuition, not including residence.
When Trump killed the NIH, he killed billions in research overheads to universities which went into the operating costs of teaching STEM. So they need to make up the shortfall. The net result is no one will pursue science as a career, because they could never afford the debt. Duke was always an institution of stupid rich kids, but now even medicine is not worth it. So our best will be working in finance figuring out how to steal from pension plans.
The system filled in the gap with PhD post docs from abroad on H1s, but Trump killed that as well. The net result is US colleges will tumble from world research rankings as investigators leave and labs atrophy and die. This means no new biotechs, no new drugs, and eventually the death of US Pharma. Make no mistake, the government in the US is both anti science and anti intellectual.
Here’s the irony already: a Cuban research institute has developed NeuralCIM, a successful treatment for dementia. Effects in trials far exceed Leqembi without the danger of brain bleeds. But the US government would rather let their own brains rot than allow the drug to be sold in the US. US Tourists are flying to Havana for the drug, and they are being charged a whopping $25 for 10 doses. The future of STEM is in anywhere but the US.
https://youtu.be/mKHvyi1MyuA
100%. Heck I am stem and moved to IT in the 90’s. Calling it stem is kinda funny because its been more tem or te or just T for the last two decades. As you point out even becoming a doctor is becoming not worth it. Obvisouly the people going into it see it worth it outside of compensation but you don’t get compensated for over a decade before you do and it can’t catch up to the loss.