Just for the record, I was a lecturer - "professor" is used more widely in the US, in the UK it has more limited  application. But notoriously there are many academics who have a very narrow specialization which they approach in a very limited way. On the other hand some businessmen have wide knowledge and are open to varied approaches to problems. I got over my earlier excessive respect for university academics when, while still an art teacher in a school I caught out one of the UK's leading academics blatantly distorting what Chomsky had written in one of his books. Must get back to the latest reply to the reply about distorting what Dawkins says :-)

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.