Guild Webinar “Understanding Evidence: Lies, Damned Lies ….. Deliberate Falsification in Sources.”

Another in our series of Guild webinars will be delivered by Chris Finn, the Guild’s Accreditation Director.

Following on from David Harvey’s webinar concerning unintended mistakes in sources, I will be looking at the problem of deliberate falsification in sources.  In other words “why do authors lie?”  I will look at a number of examples where official and unofficial sources, both primary and secondary ones, contain falsifications which range from the subtle to the absolute “whopper”.  I will then go on to explain why these falsifications have been made.  Finally, I will offer a series of questions which researchers should ask of the sources they intend to use.