> Scientists could make a lot more money in industry That may be true, as well as accurate, for a field like machine learning. But for most of science, this is

> Scientists could make a lot more money in industry That may be true, as well as accurate, for a field like machine learning. But for most of science, this is a highly misleading claim. Some science (e.g. drug development, materials science) can be done also in industry, although with a lot less freedom than in academia. But most science simply doesn't have an equivalent option in industry. Scientists are doing the work they are doing largely because they are interested researching specific questions, which can not be pursued anywhere else.