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What is "a number"? What is the threshold at which it becomes appropriate to distrust the entire work?

Most of the critique from the right seems to start with the point of view that the 1619 Project should be distrusted and works backwards from there, rather than determining its trustworthiness based on a good-faith reading of the work itself.



When I did my thesis, the attitude was a factual error of significant magnitude brought the whole thesis into question.


What field was your thesis in? Would your committee have considered the entire contents to be propaganda?




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