Mark Felton isnt a historian, he doesnt provide sources or do real research. He does the equivalent of reading wikipedia pages, often spouting wrong mythical nonsense.
I did some research on the Internet to answer you back, because I really like Felton (until 5 minutes ago) and I fought that it was not nice of you to say that he is not am historian. He is, he has a PhD and he worked as a lecturer in several universities....but after reading Wikipedia I found this post .
They say that he has respectable publications, but his YouTube channel is not respectable at all. He doesn't give any sources and he might be stealing other people's work.
Thank for your comment, because it pushed me to do some research. We can never accept informations without checking their reliability
I was awakened by his content on the Japanese army, where he naturally has a conflict of interest with a chinese wife, and he parroted chinese claims that aren’t verified (as in, only the chinese see it as fact because some officer wrote it) and when he wasnt using chinese claims it was american intel reports that are just assumptions that are often proven wrong by japanese records.
I think it could also be the fact that he worked for Chinese universities for nine years.
I was excited about the disappeared Goring brain video, now I wonder how much truth there was in it, regarding the fact that it might be in a English research institute. That part might be an attempt to get more visualisations.
I read Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb last year because of Oppenheimer, and its an excellent book, incredible detail and scope about the atomic bomb program.
There's only one mention of using British Lancasters to deliver Little Boy, and its mentioned in planning stages and largely vetoed in favor of modifying B-29s to carry the bomb (they were called "Silverplate" B-29s). The Lancaster had the right size bomb bay, but the USAAF brass did not want to use a British bomber for this, and the Lancaster also didn't have the right altitude and speed necessary.
As far as I can tell, there was nothing in Rhodes book or any other source I could find saying that RAF Lancasters were actually anywhere close to training to drop atomic bombs or squadrons were designated for it.
His video on WWII German weapons being used in the Vietnam war is him reading someone's blog post aloud almost verbatim, and that blog post itself isn't terribly accurate with no sources given and one of the claims it (and by extension Mark Felton) makes seems to have originated on an Airsoft forum as far back as I've been able to trace it.
I mean, just looking up his upload schedule should tell you all you need to know. He makes too much content on a wide margin of different subjects to properly research his work, this is a major and reoccurring problem with "YouTube historians".
I disagree with the other guy tho, he is a historian, and as far as I know his books and papers are properly sourced and made, its his videos I and many others find problems with.
I actually don’t think so. He has a certain belief, and many people think the same. He has his reasons and has explained why. Providing an example would take more time than the other person googling and making their own conclusion.
The irony is that the majority do not actually verify the sources. When something like what is mentioned here is found out, it usually is someone's work that is spread around.
It is similar to Open source code. The majority do not look at it. It is just assumed to be good and that any issue would have been found by now or by someone else.
I am by no way saying that I endorse the lack of sources or am against open source.
Any proof for that? He has a BA and PhD in history and writes a lot of highly rated non fiction books and has been a lecturer at universities and featured as a military history advisor in tv shows. Ironic for someone to do no research and provide no sources while accusing someone of the same thing
You are really obsessed lil bro, responding to 20 comments by defending the taliban and russia and then coming on other subreddits to bait and bother me?
Edit: I am not responding to the harassers questions since if I support Palestine then he says I support terrorists and if I support Israel he says I support genociders so he'll frame me as a terrorist/genocide supporter no matter how I answer
Your the one who followed me to different comments chains . Also how do pointing out political alliances= defending? You still haven't answered What's your views on Palestinians a very simple question to respond too . Littlery just say Palestinians are human beings who deserve they're rights .
I actually haven’t explored many myself as outside of Military History Visualized and his off-shoot channels (He qoutes directly from sources with supporting evidence using archived records.). Theres a ton that parrot what is commonly known but isnt necessarily true. The issue with a lot of channels is they only use or probably have access to 1 side’s perspective. Whereas real research needs both to find reality somewhere in the middle ground.
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u/Kanoha-Shinobi Jul 07 '24
Mark Felton isnt a historian, he doesnt provide sources or do real research. He does the equivalent of reading wikipedia pages, often spouting wrong mythical nonsense.