[steve-b]

Using CPS data on wages of scientific personnel, this paper shows that government R&D spending raises wages significantly, particularly for scientists related to defense such as physicists and aeronautical engineers.

This is socially beneficial -- better that the next generation are drawn to physics and aeronautics than into financial Ponzi-scheming or legal red-tape-generation.

[jusduat]

I agree with you. The headline was amusing as if those
doing R&D would be other than scientists and engineers.