Spoke to a scientist friend today and asked him about Trump’s anti-science campaign & his attacks on universities?
He replied, I don’t think Americans realize that even if we somehow stopped Trump now, he’s already set the USA back at least 20-30 years in scientific research. And given he still has 3 more years, we may not recover from this for half a century or more.
This Economist data is from 6 months ago. You can imagine how much worse it is now.😳
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I wrote to the local member, highlighting the fact America made great advances after taking in the scientific community after ww2.
Now Australia could pick up world class talent and profit from the state America has got itself into. We should be increasing funding and opening up positions to grab these people and their knowledge.
The letter I got back, came from the minister of immigration. We can't be picking favorites counties for visas, was the reply.
No vision.
Not that we treat our own researchers, academics and scientists better.
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
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