More evidence: NSF cooks its career studies...

[Arthur Sowers]

The following are excerpts from a emailing from Norm Matloff's mailing
list. I have looked at the extensive analysis written by Eric Wienstein at
the URL below and it is compelling. I have downloaded for my own use a
copy of the 23 pages at that URL, including several figures, and many
references. 

Art Sowers
http://scientistlifeboat.com

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   Amazingly, policy makers in another federal agency, the National
   Science Foundation (NSF), actually planned to bring in foreign
   nationals to produce a glut of labor in science and engineering, at
   least at the postgraduate degree level. In early 1998, Dr. Eric
   Weinstein, a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of
   Technology, uncovered internal NSF documents which expressed concern
   that science and engineering salaries were getting too high, and
   proposed as a solution to this ``problem'' bringing in a glut of
   foreign labor. It is amazing that a federal agency would actually
   plot to keep U.S. citizens' salaries down. Subsequent to the writing
   of these documents, the NSF pushed Congress to establish the current
   H-1B program, in much expanded form compared to the old H-1 program.
   Dr. Weinstein's paper on this scandal is available at

   http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/e/r/erw/Public/SG/NSF.html
   
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