General Discussion

...or scientific degrees.

I believe our Congress has two people with scientific degrees in it, and a cabinet full of people who couldn't pass a freshman level undergraduate general chemistry class.

As a world power, the United States historically had numerous problems of its own, some of which led to its collapse under a senile orange pedophile, and some of which resulted from "business practices" but nevertheless for most of the 20th century was the most important world power.

The US academic infrastructure kept it in the game. That structure is being aggressively attacked by the aforementioned intellectually challenged orange pedophile with vast power to do harm.

I am currently working my way through Issue 46 of the American Chemical Society Journal Environmental Science and Technology.

By my count, 31 of the 45 articles feature authors with Chinese names.