Kasz216 on 20 September 2009
Nah. the US will still be tops.
We'll just increase our immigration numbers for people with high level degrees.
Brain drain... it kills.
I mean... medical science... forget about it. We're the leaders by leaps and bounds... and you'd think that'd be pretty well related to biology.
Per capita our science output isn't amazing... but when it comes to pure numbers we more then triple the next country when it comes to published papers.
http://sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/08/jun15-08_1/
Besides... lets be honest. Not that many people are smart enough to be scientists anyway. So general population beleifs are going to be a lot less important then the factors that enable scientists to be scientists.
