“Meet the New Underclass: People with Ph.D.s in Science”

io9’s article on the “New Underclass….” touches upon the recent trends in the biomedical science career path. It also reflects on the damaging effects of hypercompetition, referencing Alberts, Kirschner, Tilghman, and Varmus in PNAS’s “Rescuing U.S. Biomedical Research From its Systemic Flaws.”