Larry Wilson: MAGA forces a brain drain of American scientists
Perhaps if I grew up in a family in which the patriarch was a Queens real estate tycoon, I would see the world differently.
But that’s not the family structure in which I grew up.
My father is a chemist, and he made big rockets go boom with the whiz kids in the early 1950s at Aerojet in Azusa, leading to the Saturn V, the vehicle that carried the Apollo astronauts to the moon in 1969.
My step-father was a physicist, also a rocket scientist, who did the math in those early ‘50s that p