Completely different field- but I think Charles Darwin&#x27;s way of &quot;crippling potential criticism of one’s ideas by taking charge of all conceivable counterarguments&quot; is a great example of how important rhetoric is, especially in such &#x27;biased&#x27; areas. Just imagine what would have happened to his idea of Evolution if he had not been such a rhetoric genius.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brainpickings.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;11&#x2F;adam-gopnik-angels-and-ages-darwin&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brainpickings.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;11&#x2F;adam-gopnik-angels-...</a>
&quot;[...] the other great feature of Darwin’s prose, and the organization of his great book, is the welcome he provides for the opposed idea. This is, or ought to be, a standard practice, but few people have practiced it with his sincerity — and, at times, his guile. The habit of “sympathetic summary,” what philosophers now call the “principle of charity,” is essential to all the sciences.&quot;