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>Your example was literally the most pathetic moronic examples one could ever make to prove a point because you're implying modern historians are unable to uncover the truth because they simply accept obvious lies from the primary source instead of doing their actual job and research every single aspect related to that primary source to find out if its truth or not.
no retard I said what you said in a less long winded way, they gotta sift through bullshit to find the grains of truth. Even then you can't really know if they've found those grains and sometimes (in the case of chinese history) it can be made up whole cloth. saying it's a "hard science" like physics or something is objectively retarded.
>This is just on top of my head. Historians work in academies with hundreds of others and participate in global forums to compare their research with each others to help establish truth and facts to finally reach a consensus
Okay what if they've reached a "consensus" on a written account that is fully made up but they can't really know that? I'm sure many battles and events have been made up but look plausible enough that modern historians take them as fact, it's not that far fetched to think that happens especially when that's the default mode of rulers demanding their scribes to write about.
>Your comparison is that a police detective cannot establish how the crime actually happened and therefore his job is worthless because he can only try to find grains of truth.
Comparison to detective work is stupid because there is physical real time evidence at a crime scene whereas with a primary source it's some guy and his ruler writing about something that may or may not have happened, unless you find the archaeological dig site or something that can be paired with that most likely biased primary source you can only pretend to know no matter how much "consensus" is brought to the table, once again they could be creating consensus on something that's fictional.

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When did providing sources and evidence became looked down upon?