[Toskrin]

Chomsky's fame is a bit like Freud's fame, I think. Freud was the first to popularize the notion that the psyche could be studied in a scientific manner, like any other organ in the body. His theories about psychological development were completely wrong, and have mostly been discarded, but they stuck around for more than half a century because the constipated academic minds were unwilling to challenge the "master's" theories.