I have found all articles like this written by senior established scientists can be summarised as “Looks like things aren’t as good as they used to be. Anecdote about old scientists 1, 2, 3. Science is important. The end.” They never say anything about actual scientists born after 1975. This is the very definition of pontification.
When I was at my old physics lab I did a back of the envelope calculation for how much I was getting paid an hour given the work they expected me to do.
It was less than I would have made flipping burgers.
That was the end of my scientific career.
>I have known more people whose lives have been ruined by getting a Ph.D. in physics than by drugs.
