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Originally Posted by Tervuren

I think he was using the words of someone else that painted a very bleak picture for what would happen in those states.

The projections they made, the many Brazillions of dead and injured, etc....
How does hindsight compare to those predictions that those using that word made.

And secondly, maybe Neanderthals were the smart ones.
So much about Neadnerthals has been revised time and time again.
My mom was a teacher, s I've been able to read multi-decades of materials on the same subject to see how a wrong view point is taught, replaced with another wrong viewpoint, then information came out that made that wrong view piont have to go, and another wrong view point took its place, repeat, repeat....

We know a lot less than we try to seem.

Great point. Any time I see differing opinions on history that wasn't directly witnessed, and one "expert" says "that's not possible" or "that didn't/couldn't have happened," I always think "what a horrible scientist."

Any "fact" about the distant past that was not directly observed or recorded should be presented as "our best theory" rather than being presented as fact.