@LouisConde Or maybe oral history is one of the least reliable forms of recording history, given how unreliable the human memory is even if there is no intent to slant the information. But no, playing the telephone game over 100s of years is just as valid and reliable as written records that are able to remain unchanged and allows historians to make evaluations with the exact same set of data.

And this does not account for Twitter faggotry where people just make up "facts."