[lbo-talk] Immigration controls threaten global balance of scientific power

[Bill Bartlett]

http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v427/n6971/full/427190a_fs.html

Nature
15 January 2004

As one door closes...

Immigration controls introduced under the 'war on terror' are 
restricting the flow of foreign researchers into the United States. 
With other countries moving in on this pool of talent, will the 
balance of scientific power shift?

[...]

So will the United States' draconian response to the terrorist threat 
cause a fundamental shift in the international movement of 
researchers - and perhaps even alter the global balance of scientific 
power?

[...]