CORRESPONDENCE

摘要

In his Correspondence 'Fewer academics are not the answer to funding woes' (Nature 454,397; 2008), Philip Strange suggests that we need to increase the number of trained scientists to help deal with current and future crises such as climate change. But, according to the US National Science Board's Science and Engineering Indicators 2008, fewer than 20% of postdoctoral scientists in the United States find tenure-track faculty positions. This suggests that, at least in the United States, we could already have a glut of trained scientists.