[js1138]

It's a bit more serious than that. It's civilizational suicide.

Check out the thread on the new microscope technique, and check out the names of the scientists.

Americans are abandoning science and engineering, just as the Muslims did centuries ago, and for the same reason.

In another 50 years our children doing laundry for the inheritors of our culture.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Americans are abandoning science and engineering, just as the Muslims did centuries ago, and for the same reason.

Correct. The result should be essentially similar.

[rwfromkansas]

Americans are abandoning science?

You have got to be kidding me.