Meanwhile gifted foreign students, many of them Chinese, receive advanced degrees in the United States and return home, rather than struggle for postdoctoral funding and permission to become residents. Talented American-born scientists and engineers are joining them in a reverse brain drain.
Takes a long time for this effect to play out but it’s happening and it’ll be devastating. Thanks Gingrich, Bush, Cheney et al. for the anti-science, anti-intellectual movement. Ugh.
