16. Countering cognitive individualism is how science succeeds (bias-balancing processes). 17. That famed-science-institution motto "take no man's word for it," also applies to your own word. Feeling sure that you’re right often isn’t a reliable intuition. We fall in love with ideas and methods and become blind to our beloved’s faults. - http://bigthink.com/errors-we-live-by/future-history-will-puzzle-over-the-short-lived-reign-of-rationalism