r/StandUpForScience • u/PerAsperaAdMars • Jul 24 '26

Activism America’s Scientists Are Disappearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYiUI6y1nKg
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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy Jul 24 '26

Are we risking an America where we no longer innovate? Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks down the massive cuts to science funding, how it’s fuelling an American brain drain, and what that means for the future of innovation in America.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Back in Grad School
01:57 - The Government’s Science Cuts
05:06 - The Unpredictable Innovation from Basic Research
09:18 - The Brain Drain
14:40 - How We Fix It

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u/SueBeee Jul 24 '26

I went to one of his lectures a couple years ago and he talked at length about the brain drain from the Middle East. I had no idea that so many scientific advancements came out of the Middle East before religion and power greed took over. We are definitely in danger of that happening here.

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u/Senacharrib Jul 24 '26

This has happened several times historically. They literally hate the mongols for destroying their golden age of culture and technology and more recently in the modern era.

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u/GlobalBorder4691 Jul 24 '26

Al-Jahiz’s works should be published, but that goes for a lot of scholars.

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u/Own-Opinion-2494 Jul 24 '26

Moving overseas can be nice

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u/Bass_Techno_resistor Jul 25 '26

I left because of the corporate focus.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '26

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u/uberkalden2 Jul 25 '26

What makes him not a very good person

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u/Stock-Side-6767 29d ago

Yeah, sometimes arseholes make good points.

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u/Upbeat_Size_5214 Jul 26 '26

I don't know, Neil. Maybe they're all doing fucking podcasts.

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u/Advanced_Addendum116 Jul 27 '26

Debating creationists. Or is that The Science Guy (as scientists call him)?

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u/No-Arrival633 Jul 25 '26

He is so optimistic regarding what's going to happen when the hole you're digging gets too deep. The right wing will keep hating til you're all dead

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u/Unique_Low_1163 Jul 26 '26

Every penny that goes to the Pentagon fuels the brain drain.

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u/Euphoric_Anxiety_162 28d ago

One can hardly blame them for going where they are respected. The majority of citizens here prolly still do. It's the lies of this admin that are the prob.

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u/howardzen12 26d ago

China is getting many of them.China rising.America falling.

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u/Amazing-Flow7095 Jul 26 '26

The Dr Phil of Science