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I think history always changes. It's fun to watch the TV shows in which people go back to ancient battlefields to apply forensic techniques to ancient battles. In the past it was perhaps easier to destroy evidence, disappear witnesses and participants, etc. It was also easier to create a myth to replace the facts, before there were things like digital media, hi-tech surveillance, youtube, etc. I'm not saying modern tech is infallible. Just one look into computerized voting machines will show that it's not. New myths are created every day online. But take for instance Supreme Court rulings. There is one arena in which everything is painstakingly documented, so that we pretty much know what went on during arguments and deliberations. It's a sad fact of history that the Supreme Court got it so totally wrong on various important decisions as Dred Scott and slavery and separate but equal and Indian affairs and prohibition and even as recently as Gore v Bush. In the case of our escapades in the middle east, there is absolutely no consensus as to the significance of what happened there and why the whole thing is playing out like it is. But there certainly are a lot of data out there, contained in the cell phones and computers of people across the globe, participants, bystanders, and historians. Clearly, modern history is not infallible. Perhaps we can point to today's proliferation of self-publishers and do-it-yourself software as being a tool with which we can better discern the wheat and the chaff. Can you imagine Arab Spring taking place without it? We may have to wait many years to see how the Iraq war is treated by future historians. "History will be my judge." Famous last words. Now, how to apply these ideas to medical research... I apologize for my lack of erudition. I'm just a piano player. But I like to poke at a long-burning campfire and sing tales of yore. Tag team - tag up! Rick McGirr -----Original Message----- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of A Phillips Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 5:24 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: DAVID PRENTICE correction don't think it's possible to be a pseudo-historian - most history is lies anyway, because only the winners get their versions told. > Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:52:22 -0700 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: DAVID PRENTICE correction > To: [log in to unmask] > > it's The Family Research Council not Center where Prentice is pseudo-scientist, like David Barton pseudo-historian. also date of Ohio testimony is 6-14-11. The FRC is now busy bashing gays. > > Ray > Rayilyn Brown > Past Director AZNPF > Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn