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How do I distinguish between a good historian and a crank?

568 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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In historiography, we often cast a critical eye upon writings from the past and question the methods and influences upon the writer. Have contemporary historians done any "predictive historiography" about what historians of the future might think about the way history is done today?

160 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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Are there any predicted/projected asteroid impacts that we are confident will happen and will be catastrophic, but are so far in the future that we aren't dealing with it?

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Why don't organisms that reproduce asexually rapidly diverge into different species?

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Does crude oil from different wells have different characteristics, and do these characteristics mean that oil refineries need to process the oil in different ways?

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Whales' evolutionary ancestry went from water to land back to water. Are there any species who made that flip any more times than that?

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How do I distinguish between a good historian and a crank?	568	AskHistorians
In historiography, we often cast a critical eye upon writings from the past and question the methods and influences upon the writer. Have contemporary historians done any "predictive historiography" about what historians of the future might think about the way history is done today?	160	AskHistorians
Are there any predicted/projected asteroid impacts that we are confident will happen and will be catastrophic, but are so far in the future that we aren't dealing with it?	1	askscience
Why don't organisms that reproduce asexually rapidly diverge into different species?	1	askscience
Does crude oil from different wells have different characteristics, and do these characteristics mean that oil refineries need to process the oil in different ways?	1	askscience
Whales' evolutionary ancestry went from water to land back to water. Are there any species who made that flip any more times than that?	1	askscience