US scientists are leaving academia. That's bad news for drug companies

So...

> “There’s no economic benefit (to doing a postdoctoral fellowship),” said Ginther. “If you spend four to six years in a postdoc and then jump into the industry, your starting salary is the same as if we would have just entered into industry automatically.”

> The pay gap between academia and industry is also astronomical, ...

And (that I've heard) academia has a very long history of treating postdocs like absolute crap.

Are we somehow supposed to feel sorry for the raking-in-the-billions drug companies, after the "d'oh, obvious" consequence of this situation hit the fan?

Up next: "Weep for the woes of the poor owners of >500' superyachts!"

"Postdocs are a critical component of the research and development workforce.": This is what first grade BS sounds like. Full time well paid scientists with autonomy and long term job security are critical. Not underpaid overworked staff with little or no security.