Herophile

We like heroes. We like to romanticize the past.To summarize, perhaps, each member of our Pantheon of scientific heroes suffers from one or more of the basic misrepresentations elaborated below:

• The congency of their evidence in their own time has been exaggerated.
• Their distinctiveness has been overplayed and contemporaries with similar ideas have been unceremonously sidelined.
• The incremental steps to a new theory , requiring the separate contributions of many individuals over many decades, have been ignored or downplayed and
•  The data selectively presented hiding the false/negative results.

Inspired from Einstein`s Lucks