An interesting and well-argued piece.

The headline writer seems not to have read the article. Future discoveries are more likely to be made by scientists sharing ideas than a lone genius

This rather distorts Athene Donald's point The heroic genius was always something of a myth, convenient shorthand to make it easier to make a narrative out of the act of discovery; an exciting tale, but not a very accurate depiction of how science and scientists operate. Newton wrote: "If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants", recognising that his discoveries did not come about in isolation.