Oral Stage: Following the granting of tenure stage, the oral stage is a developmental stage of logorrea that occurs among academics, who being too full of themselves, spew forth half digest ideas and theories that slip up an unaware public, and later have to be cleaned up by more sober critics who know a steaming pile when they see it. Often, sufferers of the oral phase are not aware of the mess they are causing, and are sometimes called 'leading intellectuals' by audiences that cannot differentiate shit from shinola (see Steven Pinker, Dr. Phil)
