Phil in SF commented on A Matter of Facts by Laura A. Millar
The safeguarding of authentic facts is essential, especially in this disruptive Orwellian age, where digital …
chapter 6 explains that we have to allow for oral tradition to be considered good evidence.
chapter 7 explains that people's memories are extremely fallible and biased, and so we shouldn't trust what people say without solid backing evidence.
both can be valuable perspectives, but goddamn if you're going to espouse both you better have a cogent idea of how to reconcile them. (Millar doesn't, so far.)