[PhilipFreneau]

>> You neglected the "Avoiding the Draft" theory. I've met an inordinate number of professors who entered college in the 1960's primarily to keep their 2S deferment, stayed on for grad school again just to keep their 2S, and eventually wound up with a PhD and totally unfit to work anywhere else except in academia.

Agree. There were enormous numbers of PhDs in less mathmatically-challenged fields, such as sociology and social work, who had no place to go but to pump gas (which many did) until the government, universities, and public schools came through for them by creating positions for a literal army of social workers.

[cornelis]

PhD's in psychology now run to administration, where they don't teach, but hand down mandates, demand revisions and restructions by fiat, believing their science to be the queen to govern the rest. This pattern is not leftism. It's bad human nature and you'll find it anywhere.