Thought I'd post a short comment here just to balance out the inane non-responsive few others that were posted. An insightful piece, and I agree wholeheartedly with it and the imperative. Well done.
US "research" is a SCAM, TRAP: Had a good career going in applied math and computing, yes, nearly all the money came directly or via short links indirectly from the US military. Trying to help that career, got a Ph.D. in pure/applied math -- it ruined my career and nearly all my LIFE. Full reality. No exaggeration. The path of a math/science computer science (published in AI, talked at Wharton, Stanford, NASDAQ, taught university ugrad and grad courses in it) Ph.D. and university research is a scam, hoax, lie, trap. I just was NOT NOT NOT NOT getting paid, my wife died due to the stress; the company worked for had a big shrinkage, got thrown out of my rented house, lost nearly all belongings and my large professional library, was really close to being homeless on the street and dying. No joke. In Poughkeepsie NY. Saved a major AI project. Twice saved what is now a major company (promised stock was a lie). Had a paper accepted right away in Mathematical Programming. Never could support a family or buy a house. Don't know who the Ph.D. was to benefit, but it wasn't me. Now doing a solo startup, using computing and some math I derived. The simple fact is, a Ph.D. in math, science, computing just does NOT pay. For the non-academic economy, a Ph.D. is WORSE than a felony conviction -- the business world might forgive a felony conviction but will NEVER forgive a Ph.D. Quite literally, can do better in some of the trades (NOT including computer programming) or, still better, running a grass mowing company -- LITERALLY.
The fact that this appeared in Nature says it all, it's just political propaganda. There is no accountability for services provided by indirects. I'm happy to give that system a hair cut and hold the admin accountable for actually doing the work they are supposed to - and get more of that money towards the actual research. There is an undeniable growth in admin roles in academia over the past two decades, and for what? I was transformed by the I-Corps program that followed your work, truly appreciative of it, but this one is just too far.
Thought I'd post a short comment here just to balance out the inane non-responsive few others that were posted. An insightful piece, and I agree wholeheartedly with it and the imperative. Well done.
US "research" is a SCAM, TRAP: Had a good career going in applied math and computing, yes, nearly all the money came directly or via short links indirectly from the US military. Trying to help that career, got a Ph.D. in pure/applied math -- it ruined my career and nearly all my LIFE. Full reality. No exaggeration. The path of a math/science computer science (published in AI, talked at Wharton, Stanford, NASDAQ, taught university ugrad and grad courses in it) Ph.D. and university research is a scam, hoax, lie, trap. I just was NOT NOT NOT NOT getting paid, my wife died due to the stress; the company worked for had a big shrinkage, got thrown out of my rented house, lost nearly all belongings and my large professional library, was really close to being homeless on the street and dying. No joke. In Poughkeepsie NY. Saved a major AI project. Twice saved what is now a major company (promised stock was a lie). Had a paper accepted right away in Mathematical Programming. Never could support a family or buy a house. Don't know who the Ph.D. was to benefit, but it wasn't me. Now doing a solo startup, using computing and some math I derived. The simple fact is, a Ph.D. in math, science, computing just does NOT pay. For the non-academic economy, a Ph.D. is WORSE than a felony conviction -- the business world might forgive a felony conviction but will NEVER forgive a Ph.D. Quite literally, can do better in some of the trades (NOT including computer programming) or, still better, running a grass mowing company -- LITERALLY.
The fact that this appeared in Nature says it all, it's just political propaganda. There is no accountability for services provided by indirects. I'm happy to give that system a hair cut and hold the admin accountable for actually doing the work they are supposed to - and get more of that money towards the actual research. There is an undeniable growth in admin roles in academia over the past two decades, and for what? I was transformed by the I-Corps program that followed your work, truly appreciative of it, but this one is just too far.