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mk  ·  4073 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Scientists are leaving the USA

It's entirely possible that I won't have the scientific career that I intended. It's become an extremely difficult way to make a living, and I don't see it getting better any time soon. However, it has more to do with money than politics. The politics are a symptom of a system that isn't designed to care about long term investments. For-profit industries write US legislation, not legislators, and for-profit industries aren't much concerned about the long term effects of anemic science funding.