The problem with the market-based approach is that the oversupply won&#x27;t go away anytime soon.  Right now there is a surfeit of chemists on the East Coast from the Dow-Dupont merger that added to the surfeit from the pharma crisis that started fifteen years ago and hasn&#x27;t really ended.<p>What exactly is wrong with the union-based approach (the AMA works rather nicely for physicians), and why can&#x27;t the US have a proper science policy?