Misinformation age

Recently I saw a documentary on the History Channel Middle Ages to the television. At first glance it looked like a bullet-proof, very compelling historical narrative that tells the story very clearly assigned to the collapse of the Roman Empire and Western civilization and the beginning of a millennium of chaos and disorder, known in Western Europe during the Middle Ages . Support was confirmed by a series of historical commemorations to the claims made by scientists from the casefrom conclusive on the surface.

But in retrospect, what strikes me now as fragile and full of holes and the case is really as partisan, was speculative and propagandist Dokukanal this story as a whole, it is not. A true fellowship, or a deliberate campaign of disinformation and propaganda? Judge for yourself, as I systematically dismembering ... I mean the analysis ... Documentary and says he does.

First, the documentary shows a series ofalleged scholars or scientists with different issues related to their interpretation of historical events, examining the impact of these events, their evaluations of historical figures, scientists, etc., which can easily be pseudo-academic, For All We Know had all the powers of darkness that their demands be taken seriously, not really. Who were these people anyway? What could publications that her name? Like their legitimateClaims, as such?

Even if the request can be confirmed or real scientific publications with real academic success, what you say you will not be determined that their version of reality, as reflected in the documentation, in fact, the version number of conflicting versions are the same or higher academic merit. All they do is their interpretation of facts as the truth of influential again supported this historic re-stagings of creating,the false impression that you actually see the story "as it were.

Moreover, even if the version of the story is you definitively as the only acceptable version, scientifically determined, which is not revealed to you is how the story is purely speculative and based on conclusions are based. In general, what they do is too fragmentary bits of evidence of very doubtful authenticity, and then create a developmentAssumptions out. It is unclear how much is deducible from the hypothesis, and how much is pure fiction based on invalid assumptions or extrapolations from personal experience, or even consciously promote a socio-political agenda or justify a personal opinion. For example, I saw a documentary in which a student has a rather unusual claims to have evidence that Christ discovered centuries earlier, another Jewish Messiah lived, died and wasResurrected in Jerusalem that Jesus was an imitator. But the evidence he presented was to prove his allegations so fragile, a partially eroded rock cutting tip with a few key texts scanned was obvious that he had altered evidence to support their needs.

Even if the version of the story that this so-called historical present undeniable that the only possible conclusion, which logically from the available sources that could be drawnnot reveal what is authentic or credible sources first. The archaeological remains are fragmentary purchased on the black market? Or have long historical narratives in which the original text was lost long history and everything that lives has suffered a copy that was fragmented, which in turn was copied by hand and photocopied several times, and May, an arbitrary number of editorial errors or distortions?

So, if you look closely, it becomes quiteclear that what seemed at first glance to be a case convincingly is actually constructed, artificial and full of holes that are not classified as pseudo-science. Currently, it is propaganda, not history at all, and historical events that highlight the idea. This propaganda is intended to both strengthening existing social prejudices and to promote the socio-political agenda that justifies the actions or policies of the current time to support a historical precedent (of questionableAuthenticity). The irony here is that any serious academic to be aware of this and the story itself is of such attempts to myth, propaganda, and full of so many supposedly foolproof historical narratives themselves are even suspicious and doubtful authenticity.

And therefore we must ask ourselves what we are trying to "hidden agenda" propagandists vocation. This is nothing like the agenda of racism, racial policies of Nazi domination pseudo-scientists? Or the left, innocentlypluralistic social agenda of the liberal academics? Or is it an attempt by some to justify certain forms of criminal behavior, presents a dubious historical precedent suggests, for example, that are xenophobia, polygamy, sodomy and genocide acceptable practices of ancient cultures such as Greece, Rome and Judea, they should be excused today, then?