I love history - I hate historians, apparently. The difference between you and engineers is that engineers have to build things that work. The only check on historians is other historians sense of what's politically important to emphasize 1/2
Ex., there was an actual historian applying his expertise in analyzing reports to get at the underlying truth who was convinced Jussie Smolett was the victim of a horrible racist crime As soon as he took the tools of his trade and made a testable prediction he failed utterly 2/2