Stunning in her stupidity. But let’s face it, it is more an indictment of the failure of the US educational system than anything else. We need to increase spending across the board in education but mostly in science. We’re still debating evolution. That’s simply unthinkable elsewhere.
In 1966, US-born males received 71 percent of science and engineering PhDs, US-born females earned 6 percent of those degrees, and foreign-born students received 23 percent of those doctorates. By the year 2000, US-born males received just 35 percent of science and engineering PhDs, while 25 percent of those doctorates were awarded to females and 39 percent to foreign-born students. The increase in female science and engineering PhDs is laudable as is the gain in overseas science PhDs. Still we need to increase the number of total PhDs and that investment starts by interesting children in science.
Unfortunately, I have to catagorize this in the science category because I don’t have a dumbass category.