The scary thing is how this type of behaviour has been happening for decades (maybe centuries) and implies that the scientific literature on a whole range of su

The scary thing is how this type of behaviour has been happening for decades (maybe centuries) and implies that the scientific literature on a whole range of subjects simply cannot be trusted 100%. If there is or was an economic, political or idealogical motive for skewing or misreporting something then it is quite probably there distorting the historical record.