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CGP Grey: The Race to Win Staten Island

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  1. Eylrid
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    The race to watch CGP Grey slowly go insane. I appreciate that he went to so much effort to try to hunt down the source of the story instead of just presenting something that sounds good...

    The race to watch CGP Grey slowly go insane. I appreciate that he went to so much effort to try to hunt down the source of the story instead of just presenting something that sounds good regardless of whether it's true or not.

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  2. onyxleopard
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    I’m glad there are people out there willing to spend so much effort to show how much of what is considered to be historical fact isn’t true (or is at most unverifiable). I’m reminded of this Tom...

    I’m glad there are people out there willing to spend so much effort to show how much of what is considered to be historical fact isn’t true (or is at most unverifiable). I’m reminded of this Tom Scott video from over the summer. Earnest researches can’t even necessarily get the ground truth about the world in the present! How can you trust historians when they make claims about the world of the past?

    4 votes