Scientific innovation has been driving US economic growth for decades. Losing that edge means losing access to the technologies and brainpower that come with it.
and just think about how much farther that spending goes in china, buying chinese-produced materials and equipment that western academics pay exorbitant premiums to get the western (still chinese manufactured) versions of.
and just think about how much farther that spending goes in china, buying chinese-produced materials and equipment that western academics pay exorbitant premiums to get the western (still chinese manufactured) versions of.
I was going to say “because of how much spending in the US is just a grift” and wouldn’t go to actual research, but that’s a really good point!
well i suppose i would be a little suprised if universities in china took half of grants as overhead for lab space. they might though, i don’t know.