Bellwether Validated!

The premise of one of my favorite reads, Willis' hysterical
BELLWETHER, has just been confirmed as factual!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080214114517.htm

 "Have you ever arrived somewhere and wondered how you got there?
Scientists at the University of Leeds believe they may have found the
answer, with research that shows that humans flock like sheep and
birds, subconsciously following a minority of individuals.

Results from a study at the University of Leeds show that it takes a
minority of just five per cent to influence a crowd's direction - and
that the other 95 per cent follow without realising it."

Rhonda

"If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than
having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of
commitment to some special and constricting idea."  ...Richard
Hofstadter, American historian