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Why do librarians choose to include pseudohistorians like Gavin Menzies and Erich von Daniken in library history sections? I know that there’s a general opposition to the specter of book-banning, but can’t they critically choose to spend their limited budgets on actual history instead?

by /u/Ersatz_Okapi in /r/AskHistorians

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