How Silicon Valley Is Turning Scientists Into Exploited Gig Workers
April 14, 2026 Tech elites are enriching themselves by plundering STEM establishments—and providing researchers scraps. Ad Policy Peter Thiel and his ilk are ravenous public science.(Eva Marie Uzcategui / Getty) Silicon Valley wouldn’t exist with out government-funded analysis. Foundational applied sciences, together with the semiconductor and the Internet, emerged from Cold War–period army analysis applications….