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Their wordsBut I’ve become increasingly worried that science’s replication crises might pale in comparison to what happens all the time in history, which is not just a replication crisis but a reproducibility crisis.
Their wordsHistorical myths are especially zombie-like. Even when disproven, they just. won’t. die.
Their wordsBut it’s hard to trust when you are exposed to one of the most frightening of revelations: that hardly anyone ever bothers to check.
Their wordsJust as in the sciences it is considered good practice to make one’s data available, in history it should perhaps be a requirement to upload to some public repository the photographs or transcriptions of any cited archival sources that are not otherwise freely accessible online.