Seems to be a trend nowadays attacking the fact that lone geniuses exist and tend to be outside the direct control of bankers and bureacratic corporations.

Crick and Watson never claimed to be lone geniuses working in their garage alone when they decoded DNA, so debunking that they are lone geniuses is not a particularly compelling argument. However, hallucinations brought on by LSD trips were a key factor, which is interesting and seems to have contributed more to their success than working in a well funded lab at a corporation, though that certainly had its own benefits as well as disadvantages.

It's also never been contested that lone geniuses do in fact build upon previous work and discoveries made throughout history, in addition to making their own contributions. So pointing that out is not debunking "the myth" of lone geniuses either.

Tesla, Erastothenes, Philo Farnsworth, even Einstein in the patent office all came up with original ideas.

It's interesting when there is a flurry of articles making coordinated attacks upon the very idea of creative individualism. Often when things are so coordinated there is a PR firm behind it. Who is their client is the question I ask.