text: The sad fact is that American science has withered along with things like American manufacturing.  Today it is more important to have gender equality in science than gender-blind brilliance.  To those not involved in research, this is not obvious.  To those of us who are, the writing is on the wall.  The torch will be passed to China and other emerging nations who value results rather than process.  At UO, mediocre mostly irrelevant research leads the pack.  Although there is no clear indication that Trump intends to cut back, he might as well.  UO research produces very few results.