And I suppose I have been trained - I mean, this is a pretty important part of being a historian - to first check to see if a fact is knowable with a high degree of certainty before trying to instead use inductive reasoning or analogy to arrive at a *probable* result.
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(Also, vibes are more immediately compelling to our fundamentally ape brains, but that's a discussion for a different thread I think)
most people are *not* trained and google is not by any means guaranteed to give any given Joe Dunning-Kruger Public the actually most reliable source rather than some crank with an axe to grind (which may be a very well-funded org with great SEO)
on the other, we can definitely be making better use of that stuff if we stop treating it as zero-sum *against each other*
(Yes, it's mostly vibes, and also the source of the feeling is too long to fit in the second half of this.)