Studying history broadly, w/o connecting with enough living people who come from those histories, is a serious strategic error in humanities
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Just as ground truth in physics lives in experimentation, ground truth in the humanities lives in... humans. This seems to surprise many.
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agreed but the problem of getting representative samples of humans is much harder than it is for science, normally
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Too many historians see history as transformative. It's cumulative. You wanna idea how they thought? Go ask them, they're still here.
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climate skeptics don't trust the scientific establishment itself, so personal bias
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