Ask HN: Where have all the scientists gone?

2006 - https://www.the-scientist.com/uncategorized/are-we-training-... - "Are We Training Too Many Scientists? A glut of postdocs, too few desired positions, and a faculty invested in the status quo point to a need for change. Who will take responsibility?"

2013 - https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/too-many-scientists/5... - "Too many scientists? The proliferation of PhDs is unsustainable and damaging, says Paula Stephan."

2010 - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-the-us-produ... - "Does the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists? American science education lags behind that of many other nations, right? So why does it produce so many talented young researchers who cannot find a job in their chosen field of study?"

2018 - https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2018/02/science-discontents-... "Science and Its Discontents: Too Few Jobs—or Too Many Scientists?"

What makes you say that they are gone? Are you saying that there are fewer than before? Comparatively less? Or that you just don't see many people putting on a white lab coat for work these days?

How do you even define a scientist? Is a chemist a scientist? A physicist? A mathematician? A computer scientist? A data scientist?