I think this can be chalked up to a misunderstanding of just how bad memory is for most people, and just how bad reading and audible comprehension is. It has been shown through science that "eyewitness testimony" is abjectly worthless to the degree that any sane person would probably ban it from the courtroom, for instance.
You can also explain a lot of it with "information rot". That is to say, copying a source of information enough times will result in it being altered. (Hitler had brown eyes and brown hair, not blue eyes. Hitler admired those with blonde hair and blue eyes, but himself did not have them. For example.)
You can also explain a lot of it with "information rot". That is to say, copying a source of information enough times will result in it being altered. (Hitler had brown eyes and brown hair, not blue eyes. Hitler admired those with blonde hair and blue eyes, but himself did not have them. For example.)
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
