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Researchers _would_ leave in droves if they could. But it turns out the entire world doesn't actually care much for research. The US was actually unique in that
by voxl 2mo ago
Researchers _would_ leave in droves if they could. But it turns out the entire world doesn't actually care much for research. The US was actually unique in that regard.
- hashstring 2mo agoThat’s not true and uninformed. What even makes you believe this? Europe has tons of top research universities. Both EU and China are competing with the US [0]. And this news is not an isolated event. The majority of Americans rank US higher education research and innovation as: poor [1]. US top universities are shrinking PhD programs [2. The thing that makes the US unique is that they are really dropping the ball in a lot of areas, because of bad leadership of the financial and political “elite”. [0] https://sciencebusiness.net/news/universities/how-eu-research-stacks-against-world-three-charts https://sciencebusiness.net/news/universities/how-eu-researc... [1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/15/growing-share-of-americans-say-the-us-higher-education-system-is-headed-in-the-wrong-direction/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/15/growing-s... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/us/research-universities-fewer-phds-science.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/us/research-universities-...