Representative Nathan Ramsey’s latest newsletter recounted his recent visit to Thermo Fisher Scientific. The company is complaining they cannot find enough people with high enough skills. I wager any job-seeker with a math or engineering degree and a modicum of common sense would have done some light research on the company and been repulsed by its acceptance of ARRA funding and its cooperation with ISO certification games. Taking frivolous money from a country massively in debt is not sustainable. Continually rewriting pages of policy wherein precision exceeds reasonable margins of error is not science. The combination is crony capitalism, bureaucracy, and an affront to true practitioners.

The same reasoning underlies the perpetual shortage of math and science teachers in public schools. It is a brave soldier indeed who, after undergoing rigorous training to become logical and weed out nonsense, submits to the psychobabble in order to try to effect some good.