The BBC also received collateral damage for spending too much time revering science, as did my own experiment at Cern, the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, just for being there.
To some, the uneducated farm boy turned cartel magnate is a Robin Hood figure for modern times, revered for his fight against the government and generosity to the poor.
Despite his initial preeminence, because of sore ribs (caused by a diving catch in the outfield), backup Tony Gwynn, Jr. started four consecutive games in centerfield (beyond the time Revere needed to recover from his injury due to Gwynn's success at the plate) while Revere, who had recently struggled at the plate, was on the bench.
Nearly a third of people (31.9%) who responded to a guardian.co.uk poll have pointed the finger at the man once dubbed "The Oracle" and at one time so revered by financial markets that a single utterance might prompt – to borrow a Greenspan phrase – an outbreak of "irrational exuberance".
It piles the pressure on Britain to make a similar admission that its long-time darling, revered as a success story that underpins an entire ideology around donor development aid, could have feet of clay.
Gordie Howe, a four-time Stanley Cup champion, six-time NHL scoring leader and six-time MVP, is revered throughout the hockey world for the toughness and skill he showed through 26 seasons in the NHL and six in the World Hockey Assn.
It's possible, he says, that the Jōmon of this time and place revered their dogs for spiritual or other reasons, rather than their hunting prowess.
In Washington D.C. and capitals across the country, our governmental structures are a picturesque homage to a revered time.
She didn't even get to tell her lunch guests about the time she was revered as a goddess by a primitive tribe.
At a time when the revered have become as distrusted as the scientists who have spent their entire careers analyzing climate data, what's needed now is for is for a different type of leader to come forward and put the debate on climate change to rest (and please, this time a less politically polarizing figure than Al Gore).
