timberwolf, IMO its not getting silly, its been absolutely firkin ludicrous for a long time!!
We rely on "books" for information and points of reference about the past and books are written based on the opinions of those who write them....David Irving and his books on Holocaust denial spring to mind as an example, for those who want to believe it its all true and not opinion but fact...for those who dont he is a complete and utter tw8t.
Not everything that people claim to be factual actually is.
A lot of nonsense gets reported as fact when, in fact, it isn’t.
There is no such thing as an alternative fact. That’s why it became such a big joke when members of Donald Trump’s staff called some of the president’s lies “alternative facts”