It’s been my experience that the Ivory Tower guys really aren’t that smart. They’ve managed to memorize a lot of stuff and then regurgitate it back to their PhD committee but that is *not* the same thing as flexible creativity built on a bedwork of scientific knowledge or history.

If you’re a PhD in computer science or engineering, that’s one thing (and even then you might be so focused on your own preferred whirligig that you’re lamentable about everything else). But if you’re a PhD in women’s studies, black history, or French, quit preening and just get away from me.

I was reading something somewhere recently, too, that journalists aren’t that smart either; the author said to just read the corrections in the NY Times to get an idea of the intelligence level of both writers and editors in the MSM.