• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    All true but hardly unique to the US. China is not exactly a proponent of academic freedom and intellectual curiosity.

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      3 months ago

      I am not familiar with China’s academic climate, but I find it difficult to imagine it’s worse than situation here.

      But even if it was, they produce twice as many PhDs; it would have to be really, really bad to be less effective overall.

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          3 months ago

          Research papers aren’t a per-capita thing, whether they have 4x as many people or 400x as many people, scientific advancement is scientific advancement.