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Documented History is of course riddled with distractions, exaggerations, distortions and outright lies. So laziness is just one small facet of this. The rich and powerful have always distorted historical record for obvious reasons. Even contemporary documents are full of bias. Conflict records were mostly written by the winners. Think the Tudors. Even great writers like Shakespeare distorted history to please their patrons, (Richard III, Macbeth) allegedly he added.

Even today university professors and other academics write some right crap in order to please their superiors and keep their jobs (not all of course). You can easily spot this when one professor pulls to pieces another's thesis, even if you know nothing of the subject.