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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenris" data-source="post: 2037499" data-attributes="member: 2820">Yeah other countries like the Free State of California  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Part of the passing of the recent ballot initiative here was to do exactly that, NOT fall behind other countries or even other regions of this country. Just as the Silicon Valley dominated tech development, so the thought goes, that Califonia can, by staking an early claim become the stem cell leader. But as a scientist, I will say one thing. You tend to get more..... specialization in other countries. In many other countries, there are a few very well funded areas of expertise. Whether you look within disciplines or across them, some countries put the bulk of their research funds in very specific areas. And in those areas they are very good. But nobody matches the US in terms of breadth. We have out fingers in everybody's pudding (some not even our own  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> But science is more and more international these days, with far more international collaborations to advance science. The game of "scientist red rover" that got played at the end of WWII is a thing of the past. My collegue's research that aids me may come from Michigan or Spain. Good science takes precedent.</blockquote>

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