WaPo on the Big Science "Pyramid Scheme"

There's no evolution angle per se in this Washington Post article but it makes a fine rebuttal to folks who think of Big Science as a holy and pure mother church, motivated only by the pursuit of truth and endangered by a barbaric anti-science attitude in the hinterlands, so that not enough young people are embracing a priestly vocation as professional scientists, to the impoverishment of our society etc. etc.

On the contrary, there aren't enough science jobs to go around to newly graduated...