Quote Originally Posted by leo9 View Post
One of my first lessons in scepticism.
I learned the same lesson, a long time ago. Back in the dark ages, before the Internet, I had a history teacher assign a lesson for our study of the American Revolution. Our public library had copies of both the Encyclopedia Americana and the Encyclopedia Britannica. We had to use both sources for a short paper about, I think, the Boston Tea Party. Turns out the lesson was more about being aware of your sources than the Revolution.