TheAncientGeek comments on Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Laoch 17 February 2011 09:51:00AM *  4 points [-]

"In particular, if you are from a small nation that has never really been a player in world history, your local historians are likely to be full of parochial bias motivated by the local political quarrels and grievances..."

Describes Ireland pretty well.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 14 July 2015 11:56:16AM *  0 points [-]

Small nations aren't always Roaring Mice ... some trade on being modest and unthreatening , and forming egalitarian alliances with other small nations. For instance., the Benelux Countries