Fewer undergraduates today than ever before are opting to pursue careers in science.
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is because business related subjects offer greater financial security and Linking Words
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will result in less overall talent in scientific fields.
The main reason that discipline majors are dwindling is the lure of business. Studying a scientific subject Linking Words
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as biology or chemistry requires intense specification, long hours in labs, and unstable future career options. Business related majors, Linking Words
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comes in the form of all the majors related to commerce rapidly growing in popularity, including marketing, finance, corporate law, banking, and economics. Parents often put pressure on their children to major in these subjects to secure a minimum level of financial success and raise the ceiling on future earning potential.
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, the impact will be felt in an overall decrease of talent in structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. Linking Words
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, in the past, Linking Words
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subject tended to attract the best and brightest students who saw it as a path to personal wealth, glory and the public good. Linking Words
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, in the decades leading up to World War 2 when advances in medicine and technology of bright individuals like Marie Curie, Alexander Fleming, and Albert Einstein made them immortal role models. Today, our role models are more likely to be businessmen of a sort Linking Words
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portends fewer great figures in science going forward.
In conclusion, business has siphoned off potential science majors and Linking Words
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will result in fewer high quality scientists. It is important to highlight the achievements of scientists and denigrate businessmen in order to curb Linking Words
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