Do Americans Think the Country Is Losing or Gaining Ground in Science? Democrats and Republicans both think it is important that the U.S. is a world leader in science, but most Democrats now think it is losing ground compared with other countries
Do Americans Think the Country Is Losing or Gaining Ground in Science?
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The future of science will likely be written in Chinese. Look at the authors names on any scientific paper on a cutting edge topic.
Trump gutted research funding and fired a ton of scientists.
Some of those scientists left for other countries.
Yeah, the US is failing in scientific research.
Third world countries relying on innovation for literally everything, first world countries the sun isn’t real and we have to keep coal miners in business.
In order to have science advancement, first one needs to have scientists.
Scientists do not come fully formed out of the womb; instead they are trained at these things called schools. Schools provide this thing called ‘education’.
One of the political parties in the US (guess which one??) has been attempting to devalue education and replace it with folk stories from a 2000 year old book.
From memory, the book they like was written by folks without an adequate science education so there won’t be a lot to learn about science from the one book that is acceptable to teach.
I’m not sure how you grow more scientists without teaching science, but at least the 10 commandments will be on a sign. /s
I remember during the George W Bush administration discussions about global warming, whether or not it’s real and if we should be investing in alternative energy technologies like solar panels.
Well who dominates the solar panel industry now?
We are cutting funding to a variety of technologies and catering to pseudoscience. If we’re not losing ground already, we will be. I’m sure there will be a the occasional shiny new trinket we can point to and go “we invented that” but America will lose its place as a leader of scientific advancement. Even the private sector will see a decline with higher education becoming more exclusive, arbitrary limitations put in place to fit agendas and a decrease in the number of people able to afford the new stuff.
Now? Only now?
The US has been loosing ground for decades.
People are delusional.Â
Scientists are leaving the US.
Mastery of science implies a solid education system. The US education system has been systematically destroyed over my lifetime.
It takes two generations for the damage to become apparent. And that’s nowÂ