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Modern historians act like scientists, losing big-picture view
Today's historians function like scientists who won't make claims they can't quantify or back up in peer-reviewed journals, which makes them uncomfortable issuing the sweeping satellite-level pronouncements that historians of 50 years ago freely made—even though their subject, human beings, is inherently hard to quantify.
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Dan CarlinEvidence Quote
“in 50 years ago you would have had all these historians who would have been just fine looking at events as though they were you know in a satellite and give you these big pronouncements most historians today wouldn't be comfortable with that”
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:51:22 AM
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