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by lacampbell 3350 days ago
The compensation vs time/effort required getting a PhD must surely have a lot to do with this. Wasn't the hey day of US science during WW2 and the Cold War, when government funding was much higher?
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> Wasn't the hey day of US science during WW2 and the Cold War, when government funding was much higher?

It's not so much about the funding as it is about a common, shared goal. Getting all the indians to shoot their arrows on the same target at the same time is quite powerful.