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<p>Even in the current environment? When the job market is relatively flooded with high-flyin’ hedge fund talent? 
Not trying to pick a fight, I think that your description of the selection process is spot on for the sciences too, though I must say that I don’t have first-hand experience like you do. Most of my info is second-hand from professors I know.</p>
<p>*I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to
control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation,
the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive
the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the
continent their fathers conquered.</p>
<p>Thomas Jefferson 1802*</p>