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In broad strokes I agree, but my overall point was exactly about this facet, which I excerpt:

> even with the scientific brain drain due to Nazi persection of jews and dissidents of all stripes

My point was precisely about that brain drain, in particular the dismissal of "Jewish Physics" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik), which drove the atomic physicists right into America's open arms

So to watch the US destroy its seed corn with its own xenophobic brain drain is particularly ironic