This atrocity (and the well from which it springs) might be an interesting variant of Dunning-Kruger, one that also seems capable of infecting academic institut

This atrocity (and the well from which it springs) might be an interesting variant of Dunning-Kruger, one that also seems capable of infecting academic institutions. The belief is not supreme knowledge of a poorly-understood subject, but the belief that any such knowledge is superfluous, naive, or partisan when compared to a suitably abstract empirical method or algorithm. It's not unfamiliar to the attentive, because we all live in a world built by this effect, and it is precisely what happens when one removes the human from the humanities, and the humanities from education.