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I find it funny when various pundits and news reporters in the media constantly complained that the United states is falling behind in new developments in science and technology , and which to a certain extent, there is some validity to this claim , observing that the scientific literacy in the public is abysmal compared to the scientific literacy of the general population in other countries and the higher number of grad students in scientific fields are mostly foreign students . We are constantly told that China and various other countries have surpassed in being innovators in science and technology. Yet , despite the bad scientific literacy in the US and despite the poor quality of science education in this country, and despite the disproportionate number americans who do not choose science as a career choice compared to the higher percentage of people who choose careers in science in other countries like France ,China and India, we still manage to beat the odds and produced the highest number of nobel Prize winners in science in this country! China has the largest population of people on the planet, yet has only produced THREE nobel prize winners in science and we are constantly told to emulate the Chinese and they had a nobel prize winner in science like almost every 50 years and the US has had at least one nobel prize winner in science every year.