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> To me (as an outsider) it looks as if the USA, en masse, doesn't believe in science anymore.

I'm also an outsider, but I think this is really a money problem. The same thing happened in the USSR in the late '80s, suddenly there was no money for science anymore, it didn't matter that the Soviet scientists had helped produce great things.

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Is that true, though? Is the USA really running out of money?

I simply don't believe it. The USA is still the biggest economy of the world, which makes this a resource allocation issue instead of a resource issue.

The USA is a huge economy, but debt can't just be swept under the rug forever -- interest payments are huge and getting bigger. Everyone is starting to realize we can't keep borrowing forever -- we're nearing the end of that way of living.

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