Biotech sales forces are small, elite, experienced, and capable of running a total business. Many start right after college with major pharmaceutical companies, which hire thousands of salespeople annually.

We just want all the scientists who choose to work in the U.S. to get as much satisfaction from their work and their lives as possible, whether they were born and educated here or overseas.

There's plenty of scholarship out there, and pretty much all of it suggests that micromanaging knowledge workers--let alone whacking them over the head, pinching them on the *ss, and making them feel like dirt--is a bad idea.

Despite the geeky stereotypes, some of us scientists are interesting and--dare we say it?--sexy in our own peculiar way.