Becoming a scientist is hard work, requiring years of training and study, often paid for by taxpayers in the form of scholarships and grants. These difficult career paths are undertaken by our brightest minds, and their skills are critical to our nation's competitive technological and scientific edge.
However, basic scientists are notoriously underpaid. As a result, many scientists choose non-academic, higher-paying careers, representing a loss on our investment in their education.
We need to reward those of us who choose exploration of the unknown as a career. Careers in basic science must be an attractive, viable career option if we are to continue in the tradition of basic discovery that made us the inventors of the steamboat, the telegraph, and the computer.
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