Well, there's fluff in every discipline [1]Collin Atherton
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  But study of history is as complex and intricate a field as any
  endeavor.

  The "rules of the scientific method" are solely for coming with
  physical systems. The study of history is not a physical system
  and requires different kinds of criteria for evidence.

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