Pseudo-history, and related issues

[SigniferOne]

Exactly. That's why people in the larger culture abandoned history completely (and why shouldn't they, when even the people right in the thick of it don't care to make it interesting?), and as a consequence people who do make it interesting feel like they have no need to be very factual, for they have no competition from anyone.

I blame it firmly on people who should know better.

Ever since Ranke historians have said, "I don't care to make it interesting, because I'm above vulgar popularizing." I find Ranke much more culpable than a simpleton like Gavin Menzies.