Galileo’s Dad
I had the following quote by Galileo’s dad pinned up in my cube at InfoInterActive (arguably the birth place of PSD). From the quote, it would appear that blindly doing what someone else does simply because they say so has been a problem for quite some time now.
“It appears to me that they who in proof of any assertion rely simply on the weight of authority, without adducing any argument in support of it, act very absurdly.”
- Vincenzio Galilei