I found it disturbing for another reason too: the outright attack on the uniqueness and value of individual thought. Yes, several people invented light bulbs.

I found it disturbing for another reason too: the outright attack on the uniqueness and value of individual thought. Yes, several people invented light bulbs. When something is a good idea many people will see that and produce variations on it. But that doesn't mean you can factor out initiative and individual genius. It just means that lots of people possess those virtues and that sometimes great minds do think alike. The author of this piece seems to want to abstract us all into a giant seething heap of flesh whose writhing produces some kind of inexorable motion like the way molecules banging around produce pressure from a confined gas. I don't think it follows. Elsewhere someone wrote that this seems to be a British political hit piece on science funding. Figures.