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Originally Posted by geo
...the author has to weigh up the balance of probabilities according to what he has been told and researched and interpret all the nuances the he or she has picked up.
Geo
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That's all very well, but if the author doesn't make it clear that this is his or her personal interpretation of the evidence to hand, what the author says is accepted by many readers as undisputed fact.
I would prefer the author to spell out the different accounts he or she received during the research and let the reader decide which is the true version of events.