by Richard Atkinson, former AAAS President. "Despite problems in a number of fields, therefore, it is disturbing to hear some people make the blanket statement that we are training too many Ph.D.'s. Certainly physicists and humanists will resonate with that notion. But to jump to the conclusion that the nation faces an across-the-board oversupply of scientists and engineers is inaccurate and misleading."

An annotated bibliography debunking the NSF's shortfall predictions from the American Engineering Association.