I ask where you get your "facts" from. Humility is important for sure (or perhaps taking pride in becoming right rather than being right), but it is pointless if you have no solid footing for epistomology. A "humble" academic who is endlessly skeptical of all personal observations, but turns a blind eye to the distorted incentives and lackluster filtering within the halls of the academy (concerning both publication at the surface level and the demarcation problem at a more fundamental one), is just a different form of arrogant.