This isn't really science where something can be proved or disproved in vitro but about things like "political sciences" which have taken their specific paths f

This isn't really science where something can be proved or disproved in vitro but about things like "political sciences" which have taken their specific paths for social reasons. The simple backpropogation approach is most common and IMO accounts for much less diversity in ideas. The idea that every choice was right/wrong based on the side that won ignores that with a different geography some of the choices and the winner would have been entirely different. It also tends to remove options that may have been superior but were not chosen by either the winner or loser of a historical conflict.