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The problem is we have a lot of bad textbooks in Russia, especially books that involve historical events. History books were rewritten several times, before the communism, during it and after. We have a saying "Russia is a country with unpredictable past". You rarely can track a source of information about some historical event, one book references another in distorted way and so on, like a broken phone. Myths go from one book to another with no ability to track down set of facts from witch historical claim has been made.

That is true. You can not change minds of "people who have ideological beliefs". However, those people spread "crap" among ordinary people. And pople beilive this "crap" mostly because there is no reasonable alternative to it and they do not have time and/or qualification to go through tons of scientific literature to get the full unbiased picture. So, may be if we only we could give them a reliable source things would be better... And, by just showing how this source works we can convince people that they can trust it.

Hello! I sometimes debate my friends on different topics that involve history, geology, biology, cosmology e.t.c. So i have a question: Where i can quickly get information about scientific consensus on different topics? Like age of the Earth, for example. Or history of the institution of marriage. Or history of Christmas. Something that would involve links to peer-reviewed articles and a sets of scientific facts. Wikipedia doesn't really work, because it's articles rarely include links to peer-reviewed sources and can be biased. How not to fall for things like "holocaust didn't happen" or "earthis 6000 years old"? I don't want to make mistake of believing that this is what scientific majority believes after seeing first pages of Google filled with titles like this.