Over at the Terra Sigillata blog, Abel Pharmboy has a post on the dueling goals of NIH and research universities which have resulted in "generating research trainees at a rate whose absorption by the system is unsustainable." Pharmboy goes on to argue: There are insufficient 'feedback loops' linking the production of biomedical researchers to the availability of resources to support them. Instead, the educational system is replete with incentives to generate ever more PhDs and medical doctors. In the short term these arrangements may benefit universities, but in the longer term, such extreme levels of competition for funding are unsustainable.
Population Control ... for Biomedical Scientists?
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