[Cincinatus' Wife]

President fires marshmallow cannon at White House Science Fair - Reuters - February 7, 2012

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April 12, 2012: "The Obama administration’s top science and technology official ["Czar" John P. Holdren, 1968 co-author "The Population Bomb" - who in a 2008 New York Times op-ed, called climate change skeptics "dangerous" members of a "denier fringe."], has argued for the economic de-development of America, warned science students last Friday that the United States cannot expect to be “number one” forever.

“We can’t expect to be number one in everything indefinitely,” Dr. John P. Holdren said at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Holdren is director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and chairs the President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology (PCAST), making him the top science adviser in the administration.

......In a question-and-answer session with students after the talk, one student asked Holdren how the United States could move forward now that it is no longer “the big shiny beacon” where all scientists travel to do their research.

Holdren called it a mixed picture, and said it was not purely bad for the United States that other countries were making gains instead of us."......... White House Science ‘Czar’ Tells Students: U.S. Can’t Expect to Be Number One in Science and Technology Forever

[Cincinatus' Wife]

CORRECTED DATE:

April 12, 2010: "The Obama administration’s top science and technology official ["Czar" John P. Holdren, 1968 co-author "The Population Bomb" - who in a 2008 New York Times op-ed, called climate change skeptics "dangerous" members of a "denier fringe."], has argued for the economic de-development of America, warned science students last Friday that the United States cannot expect to be “number one” forever."........

[Nifster]

There are plenty of jobs for engineers. PHd lab rats are nothing but academic whores. They don’t deserve a job just because they have lost of book learning. Tell me you can design hardware or write good code or fix things or devise new insruments or better widgets that can be sold.... then you will have a job. Tell me you want to spend your time researching things that interest you and may or may not be useful??? Those guys are a dime a dozen.

[rod1]

As a university researcher, educator, and “trainer of scientists” I think the observation is accurate. But..... for any meaninful story, the headline should have read: “Scientisits are not excluded from Obama’s economic disaster. Job prospects among the bleakest in our country’s history.”

[bert]

Do not seek a career dependent on government grants.....even a brain science Phd.

[Beagle8U]

“....“I’ve listened to this stuff on the news about how we need more scientists and engineers,” she said. “I’m thinking, ‘What are you talking about?’ We’re here. We need something to do besides manual labor for another academic person.”

Aww, poor thing. She planned to live fat-n-happy off ‘hopey changie’ federal grants the rest of her life, just like those scam solar companies.

[mo]

“Obama has made science education a priority, launching a White House science fair to get young people interested in the field.”

I wasn’t aware that was part of the powers of the Executive Branch. Silly me!!!!

[central_va]

Better increase the H1-b quotas. /sarc

[Strategerist]

The WP headline is pretty misleading, as the article purports to be about “scientists” and mentions engineers, but is almost entirely devoted to only one group of fields -bioscience - and one industry - pharmaceuticals.

Not surprising there is a glut in this field as right about now is when all the people who were steered into the field by the biotech frenzy finally have gotten the PhDs only to find out it was a bubble.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Two groups who vote overwhelmingly Democrat: PhDs and unemployed. Get someone to take on a mountain of student debt to get a PhD and then make sure he never gets a job and you’ll have a Democrat for life.

Mission accomplished.

[Brilliant]

The military and NASA cuts aren’t helping.

[onedoug]

Just another of the many methods Obama is utilizing to destroy the United States. That’s what this is really about.

[BobL]

...as we spend $40+ Billion on food stamps, things like basic research simply get crowded out.

...but, of course, people won’t figure that out.

[1010RD]

The truth is that jobs like her dream job are too expensive. She wants a tenured position and a lab to tinker around in?

Get serious. There are plenty of jobs in industry, but you have to work and do what is valuable. Not play for pay.