re: #163 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

David Barton on how to determine the historical accuracy of a book

From your post…

Barton Said…

I hold a standard that if a book is printed 1900, it is probably one hundred percent accurate because there are not agendas. If it’s printed from 1920-1940, I’ll buy into maybe seventy-five percent of it. If it’s printed from, 1940-1960, I’ll buy into about fifty percent of it. If it’s printed from 1960s on, I’ll buy into maybe a forth of it; I have that much doubt about books that are written more recently because they reflect agendas, they reflect bad education, they reflect bad stuff.

So let’s see here. In 1900 there were no agendas? There were no books on social Darwinism, the “white man’s burden” or promoting the rights of companies to use child labor?

Of course, I suppose Barton is into those sorts of things anyway.. so that is good think…

On the flip side, I wonder what he would do with the fact that Newton, Darwin and Galileo all published well before 1900…