These modifiers ... outside their ghetto

If you think its bad in the physical/hard sciences, come over to the social sciences (much less Education) where (almost) every person with letters behind his/her name feels endowed to wax elloquently about stuff they have no busisness discussing (much less as an authority), just because he/she read an article or book at one point in his/her academic career. The best phrase I learned a long time ago is: "that is not my area of expertise," which goes hand-in-hand with my all time favorite Arthur Jensen quote:

I'm always amazed to see a psychologist offering a glib explanation of some immensely complex behavioral incident when psychological science has not even provided explanations for comparatively simple general phenomena...

If you think its bad in the physical/hard sciences

i figured if its bad in those sciences, must be worse elsewhere.