.@OpusMixtum is correct, there is no secret history. But that is entirely beside the point with this rubbish conjuring a conspiracy about academic work.
And, not for nothing, what “tenured paychecks” would those be?pic.twitter.com/BptqGB6ol8
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I honestly have run into *academics* from other fields who trot out, "Oh, I could never be a historian, I can't remember names and dates well." Neither can I! Fortunately, that's not my job and instead why we have reference texts!
But it is really a bit pathetic when you run into the conspiracy theorist who launches into 'but how do you know?' argument expecting that the knowledge in question is 'turtles all the way down' and... It isn't. There's a foundation to it, and that's where historians work.
