Why is an EU publication describing the brain drain to the US a "speculative" article and your experience of one definitive?
"We've got more and more foreign nationals filling out the ranks in advanced degree programs, and fewer American students. There is a reason for that. Students aren't stupid."
So just the foreign students who do not return to their home countries are "stupid?" Read the articles. The foreign graduates stay here.
So they say. You want me to believe something someone publishes in a foreign journal or my own lying eyes? I'm telling you my experience. You can give that whatever credence you want compared to a magazine article, but I live the truth of the matter everyday, so you're going to have a hard time convincing me that what I experience everyday is untrue but what someone I don't know writes in an EU article is true.
You remind me of the guy I used to work with who stated that he knew it was absolutely true that wearing seatbelts in a car crash didn't really help save your life because he read some article in some magazine to that effect. He's preaching that crap to me after I'd just lived through a 50 mph crash against a tree in part because I was wearing my seatbelt. Nothing like a little practical experience to give you a different view of magazine articles.