<p>Thanks for the link, Neo. Did your logic classes also teach you to recognize a straw man argument when you hear one? Or when you make one?</p>
<p><a href=“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man_argument[/url]”>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man_argument</a></p>
<p>My comments are based on my experience. Of ten newly minted PhD’s I’ve known in the past four years, all have jobs in their field except one, who voluntarily left a tenure-track position to move across the country. Three academic interviews in 18 months later, she’s still looking. The most recent PhD started a six-figure job in Houston two weeks ago, straight out of grad school.</p>
<p>I realize these cases are not the norm. There are a lot of chem majors and chem PhD’s looking for work. But others are finding work. The experiences of people I know – and not simply an uninformed blind reliance on some flaw of logic – is why I say the truth is in the middle.</p>