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thewhitetulip on Oct 27, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Nature of Thomas Edison’s Genius

If this is true then how come books are being printed with this falsehoods?

InTheArena on Oct 27, 2019 [–]

Narratives are always more powerful then fact - until someone really takes the tune to construct the truth. The it takes decades to fix.

Facts are inconvenient to popular historians and PhD candidates desperate for tenure.

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