Graham framing his essay as such is disingenuous, at best: And the call of the aggressively independent-minded is "Eppur si muove." In case you had to searc

Graham framing his essay as such is disingenuous, at best: And the call of the aggressively independent-minded is "Eppur si muove." In case you had to search for this (I did)[0] It's a reference to Galileo being correct about the Earth orbiting the Sun, and famously so. The presumption of this reference is that "independent" thinkers are right - they are more often wrong. PG seems to presume, or lead the reader to presume, that these thinkers are more right... oddly the rest of the essay avoids the question of conventional wisdom being right. This is also bad writing. The use of set phrases / quotes in a foreign language without citation is confusing for the reader, and also pedantic. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves