The myth that innovation is "...the province of maverick individuals, not stodgy legacy players and certainly not cumbersome government bureaucracies..." Or as my informatics professor used to tell us back in the day, "slow and steady wins the race", she was also fond of, "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."
It's my absolute favorite rebuttal to anybody who tries to insist that privatization is a good thing
even fucking Google was grant funded lol