Steve Smale
Yes. Iâm saying that the Jim Simons, Richard Feynman, Jim Watson, Steven Weinberg, Sidney Coleman, Ken Arrow, Linus Pauling, Isadore Singer, Joshua Lederberg, Steve Smale, Paul Samuelson, Mark Ptashne, John Milnor, model of homegrown American scientific genius is being destroyed.
Is anyone concerned about this? It sure doesnât seem it.
Science needs academic freedom. It needs resources. It needs independence.
Fauci and Collins would have been impossible if we were healthy.
It is not safe to make scientists into mere employees.
Itâs way too dangerous.
Itâs as if we, the U.S., hate being the worlds premier homegrown scientific community. All it takes is reversing self inflicted damage. Thatâs it. Thatâs all.
We seem to hate our own scientists.
It makes no sense. At least to me.
