<p>Except the poeple screaming shortage are CEOs’s who want cheap labor, Professors who also want cheap labor (grad students), Politicians who are either complete dolts or pandering to the CEO’s, and the press and guidance counselors parroting the above.</p>
<p>The people advising against such degrees are the people with them actually in the job market and know what they are talking about. The largest consumer of such degree holders is big pharma. Unless you have been living in a cave for the past 10 years you know it has been a blood bath of layoffs.
[[Vanishing</a> science jobs–Josh Bloom - NYPOST.com](<a href=“http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/america_vanishing_science_jobs_V3TzWwPRZsmTh1sGmtVr8L][Vanishing”>America’s vanishing science jobs)</p>
<p>I’m afraid you’ve heard right. Unless you want to be unemployed or working $15 an hour no benefits temp jobs I’d stear clear of science.</p>