What - Me Worry?

I always enjoy what Steven Yates has to say, and Saturday's post from the Reader's Digest (of all places) is eyes wide open material. I have seen the schools in operation first hand over the past five years and we have met the enemy - he is us. The whole system stinks and rewards the wrong values. Read this and think - science is based on strong protocol discipline, good information validity and free dialog exchange. Ahem. Yes Alfred, you worry.
It's Happening Here: America’s Brain Drain Crisis: Why Our Best Scientists are Disappearing, and What’s Really at Stake By Kathryn Wallace: December 2005 issue of Readers Digest