More to the point, no one was there to witness a Venusian handoff of a baby to the Tesla family. That is strictly a fairy story. Not all history has been falsified. To say so is to fall into an epistemological inability to know ANY history. How do you know these historical "revelations" are not also falsified? Radical skepticism leads nowhere. There is plenty of authentic history to read, but one must find it and read it.
If anything, we are learning that some history that was formerly in question is being confirmed or elucidated. Examples are the history of the Bible and the existence of the city of Troy. Geology and paleontology are also a history of sorts. The history of science is verified by countless observations of phenomena. There have long been political versions of history, but they are an attempt to hide history as such, and are not always successful.
More to the point, no one was there to witness a Venusian handoff of a baby to the Tesla family. That is strictly a fairy story. Not all history has been falsified. To say so is to fall into an epistemological inability to know ANY history. How do you know these historical "revelations" are not also falsified? Radical skepticism leads nowhere. There is plenty of authentic history to read, but one must find it and read it.
If anything, we are learning that some history that was formerly in question is being confirmed or elucidated. Examples are the history of the Bible and the existence of the city of Troy. Geology and paleontology are also a history of sorts. The history of science is verified by countless observations of phenomena. There have long been political versions of history, but they are an attempt to hide history as such, and are not always successful.