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Chapter 466 What do we need to do?
"According to the data from the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics and the American Energy and Employment Report, which was completed based on a supplementary survey of tens of thousands of U.S. energy industry employers, the energy industry, including photovoltaics, wind power, and oil, provides a total of 700 million direct jobs for the federal government. If the upstream and downstream are included, the total number of jobs will exceed 6 million, accounting for % of the total federal population."

On the TV screen, the voice-over sounded appropriately:

"The advent of controlled nuclear fusion will have a direct impact on these 20 million jobs and American citizens."

"The next question is, in the face of China's technological breakthroughs, can this White House administration solve this problem?" the female host continued to ask.

"No." Alexander said without hesitation.

In fact, he added a long string of words: "No one in the White House can solve this problem.

America's backwardness in science and technology is all-encompassing, and it is inappropriate to blame it on a certain individual or the White House.

This is the consequence of countless White Houses advocating happy education in the past."

It’s just that CBS programs only broadcast the first word.

The interviewees were all elites from top American universities, including professors, students, and international students. The different answers from different groups of people all came down to the same questions in the end.

Try to lead the audience to think the same thing:
"The incompetence of this White House has created the current state of our America."

Even skin color and gender were taken into account as much as possible, in order to give the audience the feeling that everyone, regardless of their identity or background, thinks that the White House is not doing a good job.

Obviously, this is part of guiding public opinion in the federal election.

It's cheesy, but it works.

Especially when the reality is that China, America's biggest competitor, is already unstoppable, the broken window effect will cause everyone's ideas to converge and everyone will step on this White House.

It’s like the media all led people to believe that the previous White House president had Alzheimer’s disease. Regardless of whether he had it or not, in the minds of the public he did, even the supporters of the Democratic Party thought he did.

The audience sitting alone in the Oval Office of the White House understood this principle very well, and understood the spread of public opinion even more, but he had no expression on his face, and just said softly:
"Fake News"

After about five minutes of interview, the program finally handed the camera over to the host and guests.

"Well, we can see that in the face of China's continuous technological breakthroughs, all citizens believe that the White House's handling of the situation is inappropriate.

One can even say that the White House's handling of the matter is illogical and there is no response at all. They only know how to increase the budget, increase the budget, and increase the budget.

But what happens after the budget increase? From the breakthrough of China's room-temperature superconducting technology to the present, America has invested more than 200 billion US dollars every year in this field, and a total of more than 1000 billion US dollars.

When the chief scientist in charge of the project was questioned by Congress, he only knew to tell the lawmakers to give him some more time.

Oh, obviously we can give the White House unlimited time, but China won’t give us time.”

After a sharp rant, the host turned around and looked from the camera to the two guests:

"Professor Tom Mason, as the former director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and later the director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, you should be the person in the entire America who knows the scientific research mechanism under federal leadership best.

Can you please share your thoughts? We have plenty of time for you.”

As one of the big names laid off by the Efficiency Committee, Tom Mason's dissatisfaction is as endless as a torrent of water.

And CBS is going to give him such a "good opportunity".

Mason, who has many titles, needs to take advantage of such opportunities to cause public opinion damage to the White House. When the Donald Trump returns to the White House, he will naturally be given the reward he wants.

This is the true meaning of DeepState, you help me and I help you.

As for you laying me off, you work for the federal government but don’t get paid, so what should we do? Not every federal employee can become financially free by relying on cryptocurrency.

“I would like to first say that the progress made by our Chinese counterparts is within our expectations.

When I was working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, I once organized a scientific research team to estimate that with the help of room-temperature superconducting materials, my Chinese colleagues would achieve a breakthrough before 2030.

It turned out that their progress was even faster than we expected, and Wright played a huge role in it.

But I have to emphasize that in the past, both public opinion and our government have exaggerated Wright's role in China's technological breakthroughs, while ignoring the current situation of talent surge in China's scientific and technological community.

China's technological breakthroughs are more dependent on the cooperation of large-scale talents. Take nuclear fusion as an example. Wright is only the chief engineer. In fact, a lot of work still requires the cooperation of ordinary scientific researchers.

Our problem is that the massive layoffs carried out over the past four years by the Efficiency Council founded by Musk have destroyed America's scientific research system.

Especially for state-owned laboratories, this brings huge risks and uncertainties.

Lay off everyone first, and then hire more people as needed.

This model may be feasible in enterprises, but it is absolutely not acceptable in the field of scientific research, especially in cutting-edge scientific research.

When researchers working in cutting-edge scientific research fields are laid off by their laboratories, they can have many options due to their abilities.

Whether it is universities or industry.

Take the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as an example. It brings together a large number of top scientists and engineers, who are an important part of the United States' scientific research strength.

The proportion of employees who received an offer from Oak Ridge after layoffs and ultimately chose to return to Oak Ridge will be no more than 10%.

In this process, 90% of the talent was lost.”

As the former director of Oak Ridge for 10 years, Mason knows the statistics well.

I specifically asked my old colleagues one by one before coming here.

On the phone, these old guys complained a lot about Musk's ruthlessness. He laid off employees without caring about your past contributions. In short, there is only one word: "Get out."

"In the past, our layoffs in the scientific research field have seriously affected the continuity of scientific research projects. Some large-scale scientific research projects often require long-term investment and teamwork. If the project leader or core members leave due to layoffs, it may lead to project interruption or delay, which will directly affect the final results.

Why is our efficiency so low with the same room-temperature superconducting material? According to the information I have received, every time the project leader is changed, not only does it lead to the interruption of the scientific research project, affecting time and money, but it also causes the loss of key data.

In addition, things like scientific research atmosphere and innovation vitality will have very bad negative impacts. "

Mason pointed his finger at the Efficiency Commission, a freak that has only existed in the past four years.

Musk's "retreat" did not lead to the disappearance of the Efficiency Committee. Later, the people in charge of the Efficiency Committee were even more ruthless in laying off employees. In the field of scientific research, they even created top jobs.

In the past, federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have conducted a large amount of research in the biomedical field and trained many top scientists.

Many NIH researchers left to start their own businesses or join biotech companies, applying their research experience and results at NIH to new drug development, genetic engineering and other fields, giving birth to biotech giants such as Genentech.

The conversion of scientific research results here is initiated by researchers.

In the past four years, NIH has been almost shut down, and basically only the top projects can still get some funding.

The top projects mean commercial value.

The Efficiency Committee reached a settlement with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and completely eliminated the group responsible for cancer-related research.

As soon as this group was laid off, it was poached by Pfizer, and the experimental data, experimental ideas and results went into Pfizer's pocket.

With the help of this achievement, Pfizer took the lead in launching a targeted drug that is very effective in treating breast cancer in the first half of this year.

Only other pharmaceutical giants like Johnson & Johnson and Roche could not stand it any longer and exposed the matter, causing an uproar in public opinion, otherwise this matter would never have been exposed at all.

This is because NIH's research is more basic research-oriented, and subsequent specific drug development is based on basic research. Everyone can use NIH's basic research results, whether you are Roche or Pfizer.

Now it's equivalent to Pfizer breaking the rules.

Originally, if NIH's research on cancer was made public, and the data and experimental ideas were made public, everyone would be able to come up with similar results in just three to five years.

Just like the AIDS research done by NIH, everyone has come up with different antiretroviral drugs based on its research. Zidovudine is more useful, but other drugs can also be sold. NIH funded basic research on cholesterol metabolism and the early development of statins. Statins are one of the best-selling drugs in history, bringing tens of billions of dollars in revenue to pharmaceutical giants, and everyone shares this big pie.

This time, Pfizer has taken the table away. If you want to replicate it, let alone three to five years, it will take at least ten years, and you may not be able to replicate it even then.

It is a bit similar to the synthesis of room-temperature superconducting materials in China. I have told you the idea, but you will have to try for the specific parameters for a lifetime.

The actions of Pfizer and the Efficiency Commission have clearly dealt a further blow to the White House's reputation.

The White House's reputation is about the same as America's status on Earth, and it has long since fallen to the ground.

Now, from top to bottom in the entire Elephant Party, only the candidate himself believes that he still has a chance and can rely on the shocking information from Alpha Technology to make a comeback. Except for him, no one believes it. Everyone hopes not to lose too badly, at least not to lose Texas.

If they lose Texas this time, the Elephant Party will be doomed soon.

"Professor Mills, please tell me your opinion." The host smiled but he had to poke the White House's trachea hard.

The White House cannot be given any breathing space.

China is really our best candidate for election support, and its various technological breakthroughs are like sharp knives stabbing at the White House.

“I think Wright is important, Wright is vital.

His intuition is the key to China's technological breakthroughs. Without Wright, we would not be so passive.

Taking room-temperature superconductivity as an example, everyone knows the synthesis path. In the past five years, from Europe to North America to East Asia, many scientists have tested the room-temperature superconductor synthesis ideas published by Wright in Nature, and repeatedly confirmed that the synthesis path he proposed is correct.

Many interesting results were achieved in this process, and many materials can be reconstructed using this idea.

Everyone believes that the design idea of ​​this synthetic pathway alone is enough to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

But why can't anyone replicate room-temperature superconducting materials? Because no one knows the specific parameters.

No one even knows how to get close to the exact value of the parameter, which is the most critical part.

Did anyone realize that without Wright, we would have been stuck at this door for five years?

If China also did not have Wright, would they have many scientists who could open this door?

I don't think so.

But I agree with Professor Mason's point of view. We are indeed lagging behind in some areas, but the fundamental reason for our overall backwardness is that we have problems ourselves.

Is new energy some advanced technology? Does China not sell us its batteries and automotive photovoltaic components? Why can't Ford, GM and Tesla compete with BYD and Huawei?
Our car computer system is not as good as China’s. This doesn’t seem to be a very advanced technology, right?

Does China not license the latest generation of perovskite batteries to us? Does China not sell the latest generation of perovskite films to us?

China is not stingy in exporting technology, but we simply cannot compete with China in the fields of new energy and photovoltaics.

The efficiency of Chinese car companies building factories in America is even higher than that of our local manufacturers. They use local workers, but their efficiency is higher and the cost is lower than ours.

If it were just Wright's problem, then China would only have a few areas where it has technological advantages, and we would still be able to have a large number of advantageous industries.

In the past, we were responsible for R&D, technology licensing, and manufacturing in China. Now that it is China's turn to license technology, we have no competitiveness at all on the manufacturing side.

Our collapse in science and technology is not caused by just one person, it is an overall problem.

Last year, Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Business School jointly conducted a survey, which found that over the past three years, the higher the proportion of engineers recruited from China by companies, the better their performance in cost control and R&D.

The research and development here is not very advanced technical research and development, it is nothing more than production process optimization, introduction of new technologies, and integration of new technologies into production processes.

It is obvious that the quality of our engineers has widened the gap with that of China.

When we consider the size of our engineering team, our gap becomes even larger.

This gap is spreading from engineers to researchers, leading to the current situation.”

Considering that the Democratic Party is about to come to power, Mears-Heimer did not reveal all the results of his survey on Harvard. They also found that the higher the proportion of Indians in the engineering team, the lower the efficiency.

This phenomenon can only be investigated with the participation of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. If it were just Harvard Business School, it would definitely not dare to be accused of racial discrimination.

“So what do we need to do?”

(End of this chapter)