Thank you. I am tired of hearing Obama and every other politician talk about how we need more scientists. We need less. Researchers are dying on the vine. There is not enough funding, and all across the country, labs are closing.

For example, when I started grad school 10 years ago, approximately 20% of grants submitted to the National Cancer Institute could hope to be funded. Now it is about 5%. That 5% is not going to young researchers. It is being divided up among established labs just to keep them open. Politics dominates the funding process.

If you want more scientists, you fund science. If not, you don't.