re: #7 TDG2112

jvic, I have to side Obdicut here. I don’t see you doing any serious work to back up your points at all. Certainly not in articulating them.

TDG2112, the condition of US physics, chemistry, etc was decades in the making. I tried to indicate that I understand the problem, let alone the solution, imperfectly; the IMO and IMHO in my original comment were not expressed casually.

My post consists of assertions by someone whose standing to opine is neither verifiable nor stated. Granted. However, note that I indicated two references: the specialties of Physics Nobel Laureates, and Columbia lecturer Peter Woit’s dissident blog about fundamental physics. And note the evidence which Obdicut introduced to rebut my opinion:

Professors don’t tend to be shy about complaining about the state of affairs, says Obdicut regarding my anonymous physics professor friend. My friend’s grants, which represent summer salary and money to run his lab, are awarded via peer review. Not surprisingly, some peers are more equal than others. My friend does not openly alienate the most influential people in his specialty because he is one of many qualified competitors vying for the same money.