7 Warning Signs of Bogus History

A very interesting blog article on spotting bunk history! Seems to be a fairly reasonable/valuable standard for a BS filter:

7 Warning Signs of Bogus History

1. The author pitches the claim directly to the media or to organizations of non-historians, for pay.

2. The author says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work.

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reply to post by NoHierarchy

5. The author says a belief is credible because it has endured for some time, or because many people believe it to be true.

That could be said for established history too, no?

7 warning signs of bogus history.

Ahh, you have just in detail explained the workings of wikileaks.

Wikilieaks is attempting to change our history. Is anyone paying attention?

We shall see.

The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus History 1. The author pitches the claim directly to the media or to organizations of non-historians, for pay.
2. The author says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work.
3. The sources that verify the new interpretation of history are obscure; if they involve a famous person, the sources are not those usually relied on by historians.
4. Evidence for the history is anecdotal.
5. The author says a belief is credible because it has endured for some time, or because many people believe it to be true.
6. The author has worked in isolation.
7. The author must propose a new interpretation of history to explain an observation; heroes become villains, or great conspiracies are often invoked.

They missed one. The author claims that God told him ___________ (fill in information of choice).
Or that he was divinely inspired to write 'the truth'. etc etc. If you hear that .... RUN like heck for the exit.

reply to post by wiredamerican


What do you have in form of evidence to make such a baseless claim. I find Wikileaks to be very informative and forward about their purpose and the materials they release.?

Originally posted by NoHierarchy
The author says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work.

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Us ATSers are intimately familiar with this one.

Originally posted by wiredamerican
7 warning signs of bogus history.

Ahh, you have just in detail explained the workings of wikileaks.

Wikilieaks is attempting to change our history. Is anyone paying attention?

We shall see.

Hmm... I don't think Wikileaks is about changing history, certainly it might help CLARIFY history, but Wikileaks seems more concerned with releasing ACTUAL documents direct from sources of power. This is not rewriting but literally exposing what was kept under wraps. Conclusions are not drawn, the data is just laid bare.

reply to post by born2BWild

What do you have in form of evidence to make such a baseless claim.

Intelligence. !!

Originally posted by wiredamerican
reply to post by born2BWild

 

What do you have in form of evidence to make such a baseless claim.

Intelligence. !!

So let me get this straight, you are claiming you have no intelligence, because you were asked to supply evidence to support your claims about wikileaks. You have not supplied evidence & only said intelligence hence no evidence, no intelligence.

Originally posted by wiredamerican


Wikilieaks is attempting to change our history. Is anyone paying attention?

We shall see.

how so?

can you elaborate?

I must apologize for being rude previously in this thread. I have no evidence of my claim I made, and the only point I was going to make was that after reading the list of 7 things the first thing that popped into my mind was wikileaks.

Again, I admit I was rude and I do apologize. I will refrain from four loko on abovetopsecret.com from now on if you know what I mean. I hope there are no hard feelings.