[WalterBright]

That's true for history, as well. Archeological digs in the US have rewritten colonial history, and even Civil War history. I've often wondered how much we "know" about history is completely false.

For one small example, some years back, an office building had a natural gas leak, and at one point the roof blew off. (I was a witness.) The fire trucks came, the news choppers, and the reporters on the ground. That evening, I taped each of the local news broadcasts.

Every one of them got the fundamental facts wrong (such as calling the office building a warehouse), the timeline was wrong, etc. But those news reports are probably the only record of the event, and will go down in history as what happened.

Not that what happened there mattered, but it has made me suspicious of the veracity of news reports ever since. It doesn't even have to be malicious, the errors were just sloppy work in their desire to be done with it and move on to the next story.