[john_yaya]

Excuse me, but there's an enormous difference between working with erroneous source material, and making factual errors when the correct data are already and widely available.

And, I reject your repeated assertions that because you have historian friends, you are somehow more qualified to speak on the topic than one who does not. That type of clubby gatekeeping is frankly toxic to society and you should abandon that sort of thinking immediately.

[UncleMeat]

I do not believe that it is toxic gatekeeping to suggest that the people who are most qualified to have opinions about historical writing are history professors.