@Angry_Sociology Wealthy societies such as ours can totally pay academics to look into weird shit, 95% of which will lead nowhere. But 5% will be transformative (like, say, curing obesity)
A new Visuals blog post takes a look behind the data in a recent @NewsfromScience story on how the U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office. https://t.co/hPnOgpZcgn