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Toulouse University wants to host US researchers whose work is at risk

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43629490

Reuters is turning into a rag. The vast majority of cutting edge research is not taking place in ossified academia these days, and most Oxford/Cambridge PhDs get on a plane to the US the moment they're done with their degrees. How is that for brain drain?

I used to live in Cambrige, several friends had PhDs. None went to the US when they got their PhDs, and some even resigned from UK jobs when their multinational employers tried to relocate them to the US.

One's in Sheffield, another went to ITER.

Citation would be helpful for these two claims

If you go to foxnews.com and read long enough you'll believe it. Does that count as a source?

But seriously I'd bet it's just the typical conflation of "innovation" of new consumer-facing products with fundamental research. A sad example of Dunning-Kruger.