If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

Proposed cut to DEB is 89.6%

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Interesting… I feel like many people hate investment bankers, so that one surprises me. The other too make sense to have increased. I’d still be surprised if being an engineer was more prestigious than a medical doctor. But again, clearly I don’t have a handle on it.

I clearly don’t have a good handle on this. Which professions are higher prestige now?

Thanks for sharing… this makes it clear that my personal perception that MDs still have high prestige doesn’t mean that prestige hasn’t decreased.

Definitely not surprised that sexism still influences prestige, sadly.

I agree that it likely is harder to be an MD now, but is that the same as prestige? Maybe how we define prestige influences our answer to this.

I’d like to say medical doctors… maybe one could argue that their prestige has declined a bit in recent years, but that could be common to the general erosion of prestige of all “experts” or the politicization of COVID rather than a gender shift. But this opinion isn’t based on data or research.