Oh my this thing but history instead of physics Lots of confident assertions based on pop-historical knowledge, often without a real sense of the complexity of the sources and evidence which sit beneath that knowledge (or don't exist).https://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/1393733988930531329 …
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Run a history blog on the internet and you will get folks very eager to share what they 'know' in the comments but typically in the form of uncited information half-remembered and already very simplified, but then generalized out beyond its particulars, if it ever had any.
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Or Thucydides: "The way most men deal with traditions, even of their own country, is to receive them all alike as given, without applying any test at all...so little pains do the people take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand."
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(Thuc. 1.20.1-3; that ellipsis elides out his concrete example of the Athenians getting their own history wrong.) Because of course Thucydides said it first.
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