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Re: Why repeat someone else's account of history, when you can invent your own?
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Originally posted by Nic Name
Isn't it ironic that historians have such a problem with plagiarism, and don't seem to have any trouble with revisionism?
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Nope, no irony. Folks like to apply the revisionist label to interpretations the don't like. If writers ignore or distort a body of evidence to support a view like Bellisiles did, its fraud, if they use real evidence to challenge assumptions and historical myths its good history.
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