We have a good call out on the inane claim there is a shortage of Scientists and Engineers or the issue is simply Americans suck.

In The Real Science Gap, we have the truth on the U.S. using it's most talented people as cannon folder, as disposable workers.

Unless the nation stops, as one Johns Hopkins professor put it, “burning its intellectual capital” by heedlessly using talented young people as cheap labor, the possibility of drawing the best of them back into careers as scientists will become increasingly remote. A nation that depends on innovation for its prosperity, that has unsurpassed universities and research centers, and that has long prided itself on the ingenuity and inventiveness of its technical elite, must devise ways of making solid careers in science once again both captivating and attainable. There’s no shortage of American talent. What’s in critically short supply are the ideas and determination to use that talent wisely.