I've talked about this before. Glenn Reynolds wrote a mostly correct piece about the whole thing here.He worries, rightly so, about a society that pays its lawyers much better than its scientists and engineers. I worry too, but we have too many people in this country with biomedical science PhDs. And hardly any of them are American. I think *that* is the most worrying aspect; that we don't have any American scientists; we import a large majority of our scientists, particularly in useful fields like biomed. Oh well, so far there isn't much we can do about it, but the fact of the matter is pumping out more PhDs isn't going to do squat about our problems. Those of us with doctorates can barely land a decent job.