The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #159228   Message #3773695
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
19-Feb-16 - 03:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: Gravity solved?
Subject: RE: BS: Gravity solved?
Musket,
"Only in WW1"

Yes.
I would not reject the work of any historian just because it was old or the author dead.

In the specific case of WW1, where there has been a consensus on some issues that has only emerged in the last twenty years, I did say that it was fatuous to challenge that consensus with quotes from before it existed.

You people denied that consensus, but could find no historian outside it.
You just kept irrelevantly quoting work from before the consensus because you had nothing else.

I would then point out how fatuous it was to quote long dead historians, or pre-consensus work, as evidence against a fairly recent consensus.

And here you are still ploughing that same old fatuous farrow.