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@DerPumu@mstdn.games @richpuchalsky@mastodon.social A scholar checks sources recursively when seeking the reason for some inconsistency or contradiction.  First test the conclusion; if it is false or imperfect, only then test the most likely sources of error. Rooting out entrenched errors may require a serious amount of labor.  (William Gilbert needed decades.)  Some medical misunderstandings can take lifetimes to resolve.   But scholars are in this sense never working alone.