re: #2 Bob Levin

I don’t mind this. Science is transnational, the goal is to help solve the world’s problems. I don’t care where the solutions come from, or who is inspired and creative enough to have a good idea. Any meaningful discovery creates new industries everywhere else.

Besides, the folks doing this study are measuring scientific advancement by the number of papers published, not new industries or patents.

I was going to comment on the latter part of that, it is by # of papers but when you look at the sheer number of graduates in the engineering and math fields / R&D investments outlined in that study, it really is quite shocking.

I don’t really mind it either, because I personally will probably reap the benefits of any type of global technological discovery. But in a national interests, coming up with new ideas really is the way to compete globally and remain competitive. Of course while America is the leader in the world we can continue to import these bright minds from China, but it’s only a matter of time until companies start investing more money in ventures there than here.