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Originally posted by Scipio
And one more bit to clarify. The issue is cultural. Our society no longer sends the message that it wants to be on the cutting edge of engineering and biology. The most sophisticated stem cell research is going on in the UK right now. The tallest buildings are being built in Asia. In addition, other countries are more actively competing for the world's supply of human capital.
Does a guy making a movie in New Zealand matter? Absolutely. Literally thousands of jobs, many of them technical, creative, and high paying were created simply because of this movie. Why do you think LA has so much prosperity? Culture is big business.
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Yes and its all Bush's and his evil backwards republican henchmens fault!
First off the US is still the center of research. In biology (my speciality) we often farm human projects out to places like Sweden, where the rules on human experimentation are less stringent, but the US is still the center of scientific research. Try going to an international research symposium, the US has about 1/2 of the projects, which when you think of how big the rest of the world is, says quite a bit don't you think?
Also correlation does not equal causation. I am rather successful, I employ 15 people, and I live in a 'blue' area, but that doesn't make me a liberal democrat now does it? Take out the urban poor and see where blue and red line up.