father of lies

They call Herodotus the ‘father of history’ but also the ‘father of lies.’ That tells you something about what history is. Consider that journalists sometimes praise their work as ‘the first draft of history,’ and that old newspapers are sources for later historians. Then consider how much bullshit you read in the news. @FischerKing64

a few replies: “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” - Thomas Jefferson

You'll notice that many college graduates have a strange, almost mystical reverence for sources. As if any claim they can find in a library is somehow a fact.

It's not until graduate school that they learn to have some skepticism of "primary sources." @SeattleIndepen1