I like Michael’s motto that there’s no medal for being wrong first. But it’s been nagging at me for a while. Then it dawned on me that this isn’t in fact how the culture works all the time. It seems to me Margaret Mead was wrong first — and she became a hero for it. Marx was wrong first, too. Alfred Kinsey, way out front in wrongness. I know this is a grotesque distortion of Michael’s point, but I figured I’d get it in there.

Maybe the slogan should be “there shouldn’t be a medal for getting it wrong first.”