Human capital flight. Collider's launch may spell end to U.S. lead in science

More than 1,200 U.S. scientists worked on the project, and there is a sense that a great many of them will stay here. The American scientists were loath to comment on the record lest they jeopardize their grants, but most felt strongly that the United States is no longer a place to practise massive-scale experiments.

Unfortunately for the US, I don't think this is the only or last case we'll people leaving the States for more, shall we say, hospitable climes. If McCain wins the election in November, I would like to think the trend would increase.