Students are becoming increasingly aware. “The result is that I see many of the most talented, insightful, and creative people I've ever met leaving science...” says
Erez Lieberman Aiden, Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University. “They just reach a certain point where they decide that the promise of science—of following the beat of your own intellectual drum, of going where your imagination leads you, of pursuing some crazy idea that's been in the back of your mind since freshman biology—isn't happening for them.”