What is your rationale for sticking with whatever the majority of historians said? If I may, when the majority of experts in a field all believe the same thing

What is your rationale for sticking with whatever the majority of historians said? If I may, when the majority of experts in a field all believe the same thing, it is referred to as consensus. The consensus of the experts in any well researched field tends to be, if not actually right, at the very least the best answer that can be arrived at with current information. Of course, they are not always right, even in a field as well grounded as mathematics, the consensus has been wrong in the past (the consensus for a very long time was the Euclidean Geometry was the only possible geometry.....). But it is quite reasonable to demand that someone trying to say the consensus is wrong has a high bar to meet to establish that. In general, the most reasonable thing for someone without the expertise or interest to carefully do an indpendent analysis of all available data is to believe the consensus. When someone does meet that high bar to show that the consensus is wrong, then in any reasonable academic field that consensus will change.