Comment by ben_w

> I asked for hard examples of researchers being stolen that back up your point.

"Stolen" is a far cry from "taken". Researchers are not property, they have free will. And in this case, it's "taken" in the sense of "taken on" or "taken in", because the USA is actively cutting science and research budgets.

So, you want what, a dozen names of people you've likely never heard of because most researchers are not celebrities?

Or you could ask Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, the vice dean of research and graduate education at UW Medicine, who said "We’re going to have a big brain drain in the U.S. of these really talented folks, … It’s not just a switch that you flip, right? If people move out into another direction with their careers, they often don’t come back." - https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/one-countrys-lead...

There's some pseudonymous examples here, too: https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-03-27/us-scient...

> And why is he and the rest like him in the US and not in Europe?

Why did he go to the USA in the first place? Because of the different world in 1997 when he graduated.

Why is he still there? Everyone's different, but I can say that the older you get, more ties you have. After Brexit, I was free to move to Germany, but my brother, a decade older and with a family, couldn't even though he was interested.