A soft science PhD is often a piece of garbage. One’s chances of “earning” this credential are greatly increased by their willingness to become an intellectual slut. This is especially true if they also want to obtain a tenured position. I always assume that anyone with an advanced liberal arts degree is an idiot until proven otherwise. It is a very safe and fair assumption to make. I am only being halfway facetious when saying that a sign of improving conditions is when those who graduated from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, or Dartmouth go out of their way to hide their affiliation with these disgraced institutions of “higher learning.”

Please note I did not include the hard sciences. I am convinced, for instance, that some of the greatest medical doctors in the world graduated from Harvard or Yale. My caustic rhetoric is restricted solely to the soft science departments.