me in my answers is that, while everything I have said is non-original and has long been obvious to the point of banality to many sound and well-educated minds, all the evils I decry remain grossly over-present in the best of our soft-science educational domains, wherein virtually every professor has a too-unidisciplinary habit of mind, even while a better model exists just across the aisle in his own university. To me, this ridiculous outcome implies that the soft-science departments tolerate perverse incentives. Wrong incentives are a major cause because, as Dr. Johnson so wisely observed, truth is hard to assimilate in any mind when opposed by interest. And if institutional incentives cause the problem, then a remedy is feasible, because incentives can be changed. "Truth is hard to assimilate in any mind when opposed by interest. Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English author and the leading literary scholar and critic of his time, was celebrated for his brilliant and witty conversation. Johnson’s first work of lasting importance, and the one that permanently established his reputation, was his Dictionary of the English Language (1755). I have tried to demonstrate today, and indeed by the example of my life, that it is neither inevitable no
