[Bicycle Bob]

Interesting diversion. I grew up thinking that a radical new idea only needed to be proven reasonably well and published to be accepted, like Relativity was. Now, I can't think of another great idea that didn't have to be sold almost as hard as a bad one. When John Cleese happens to meet someone who he thinks is very good at their profession, he asks them how many of their peers really understand it, rather than depending on what worked yesterday, and gets estimates from 5% to 20%, averaging around 12. Dunning-Kruger syndrome keeps the majority from knowing that they are actually floundering, or that some others are not.