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Belief in "experts" or "peer review experts" goes against the first foundation of science which is SKEPTICISM !

And unfortunately you are a consumer, a believer, not a scientist. You are like a worshipper in a religion while you believe yourself to be educated.
My friend you are practicing a religion and your "experts" are the prophets of your religion, you are not doing science at all.

1.There is nothing emotional in what I said.
2.What I said is not a trend from social media.
3. I'm not good at rhetoric but rather at proving things, I'm a logician.


4. I have no idea of what you are talking about. I am giving you my own experience of having dived into other fields, not as a consumer who loves to quote "experts" but as a person operating at the same level as those "experts".

I have many friends in other fields with whom I exchange and in soft sciences we all agree that peer review is garbage 🗑️

By the way, I live in France and I'm giving you my analysis, you live in Nigeria, it shows. You Nigerians seem to have a tendency to call others "emotional" when they say something you don't like, when you are actually the one being emotional.

Favour9ja:
Like I said, you're absolutely entitled to your opinion and it's perfectly fine to hold that stance in a space like this. However, that view may not hold up in evidence-based academic discourse, where rigor, not rhetoric, carries weight. That’s my opinion too, shaped by what I do as a calling and not based on populist or emotional views that often trend on social media.

That said, I don’t think it’s fair or even intellectually honest to dismiss research simply because it isn’t open access. I personally don’t publish in open-access journals, and many respected researchers don’t either. Ironically, some of the most misleading or low-quality papers today are found in predatory open-access outlets that exist solely for profit without peer review integrity.

In contrast, the article I referenced was published in Archaeometry, a reputable journal by Wiley and the University of Oxford. That’s not a lightweight journal. it has a strong impact factor and long-standing academic credibility. So yes, if you dismiss that as "trash" simply because it's not freely accessible, then we’re not having a scholarly conversation anymore; we’re just trading opinions.

I’m happy to continue this discussion on the merits of the evidence and methods. But throwing out entire disciplines or journals because of personal biases about access models doesn't help anyone seeking the truth.

The only fields in which peer review actually makes sense are mathematics and physics, hard sciences.

When it comes to fields related to history (especially African history), you have quacks peer reviewing other quacks for a pay. There is no way around breaking the intellectual barrier between consumer and researcher in these fields if you actually care to be accurate rather than petting quacks.

Favour9ja:
That’s your opinion. As researchers, we all require solid data not hearsay. For context, I’m an engineer with two doctorates, so while I’m well trained to interrogate evidence and methodology, I’m not an archaeometallurgist. That’s why just as you would expect in any field, I rely on peer-reviewed work from specialists (if “experts” isn’t your preferred term) and evaluate their methods before quoting or referencing them. You might find this peer-reviewed article useful “The Composition of Brasses from Ife and Benin” by O. Werner and F. Willett. It’s not open access, but I’d be happy to share the PDF with you privately if you’d like to read it.

Also, if it's not open access, then it's trash 🗑️

1. There was never an oyo empire, "oyo empire" is your ethnic fairytale, not reality.
2. There was never a country called "igboland", rather it was an expression which came into existence later on in time and it was used to refer to lands with a certain linguistic similarity, it wasn't a country but several little countries.
3. River niger wasn't in that period of time what it is today and it wasn't relevant enough for the map makrers' objectives.

ednut1:
so for your mind these maps are accurate. River Nigeria or Benue is not even there. Oyo empire, igbo land not even there. And you want us to believe he consulted people who visited the hinterlands

You want to debunk actual historical document by opposing it with your ethnic fairytales 😂
"Dahomey being a vassal of oyo" is your fairytale, not reality. As the map clearly shows, Dahomey is older than oyo. Also if Dahomey was a vassal to any kingdom, it's Benin.

You seem to be expecting a map published in 1747 to be done with the kind of precision we have today which comes from science evolving and satellites existing. Also you seem to not understand that time changes things, also you don't know how to read maps.

ednut1:
Oyo empire is missing from his map despite Dahomey/Whydah being a vassal/ tributary state to oyo. Jabu ( ijebu) is also labeled in a wrong position, there is no igbo land in the map. Its labeled as calabar land

It seems you are suffering when you see precolonial maps of Africa.
For your information, these maps were done with the collaboration of explorers who visited Africa's hinterland, many of them. These maps require more than 1 person to produce them.
Also the story of Europeans not having visited the hinterlands of Africa before in the 18th century is easily debunkable by people like me who have access to documents written by Europeans who visited the hinterlands.

I've got many other maps spanning centuries. What pains you the most is that these historical documents debunk your ethnic fairytales.

ednut1:
emanuel bowen never visited Africa he got information he used from sailors and traders who visited Africa. As at this time because of malaria/mosquitoes majority of those people never visited the hinterlands. So this your so called post/map holds no waters

Your ancestors were slaves in Brazil and there has never been any igodimigodo, stop believing all these silly fairytales. All that we know of is Benin and the one and only Oba whose title got copied by your inferiority complex stricken monarchs.


The way your people obsess about claiming each and every item of Benin culture is just disgraceful. In a real monarchy, the king is devine, but yoruba who don't have real monarchy don't know what it is. Our king is born, not selected, the next is the first don of the sitting Oba of Benin. Whereas your Oni of ife is the son of a man who was never a king 😂

YorubaDemonswag:
My ancestors conquered Igodomigodo, imposing Obaship and a new identity. You'll forever revere the Yoruba monarch as a deity.

Ska333ko:
😁🇷🇺Warlords and North African dictators around the world are going to be so jealous of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's new ride.

He's neither a warlord, nor a dictator. He's actually the equivalent of a governor in Nigeria and he also is a honorary general in the military of Russia. I've got to go, see (some of) you maybe after the war. 🏂🏿

ScarletBrace:
Disuan head don knock.
For your mind you get class.
Igbira and Abakaliki class.

Very loud and dumb.

Mynd44 rule 2

Yeah, I've just checked, my assumptions were completely right. The USA took over the colony of the Philippines from Spain and made it their own colony during usa-spain war in 1898.

WrriterNg:
Nope they were colonized by Spain.

Philippines came into the the hands of the USA at some point. I don't know if it happened like Puerto Rico during the war between Spain and the USA, but I remember that before the beginning of WW2, the head of the USA military (Douglas McArthur) had his headquarters in the Philippines, the Japanese chased him from the Philippines and he made a speech about coming back later, so he came back later...

This makes me wonder if Japan can ever become an independent country once again.

Gajagojo:
Your father will die a painful death
He will die like a dog on the road

Mynd44 rule 3

Godstime001:
His confidence says otherwise. Make I chop free money na

You guys are not good at predicting elections in western countries.

SIRTee15:
are they not paying for it. The massive uncontrolled migration into europe is due to the western led removal of Gaddafi and the war they started in syria.
No country should tell another what to do, there's a price to pay for pokenosing into what's not your business.
Russia too should collect.

Your news source seems to be a 419 agency.
Dude, who was going to protect Russians in Ukraine? I think you don't understand much about the real world, travel a little bit, read about wars of the past. Elevate your mind.

Godstime001:
when is d election? I would like to bet u. Trump would win that election hands down.

deal, 150 Dollars ?

OceanEye:
So Putin is the God?

Why is it up to Putin and Russia in Sahara military ruled countries in Africa?

They sought Russia's help to get out of a forced and abusive marriage.

onatisi:
so Russia will drop bombs on its territories and destroy all the factories and infrastructures there fantastic

Dude, you know those are small villages, right ? And even if we were talking about factories, are you suggesting Russia would be better off letting Ukraine use such imaginary factories against Russia than bombing those imaginary factories ?

Kingsnairaland:
When you shoot a candidate that the candidate that wins

Every where in the world that how it done

Trump will win hands down

Let's bet,
I've got 150 dollars on Harris.

OceanEye:
Lol, when Biden said Russia doesn't know the hell of what's coming to them, you think it's just an old man bluffing?

It doesn't matter, Biden is not God.
Again, it is not up to them.

OceanEye:
The US/NATO will never allow that to happen. Not after their sacrifices.

It is not up to them

Gajagojo:
Vultures will eat your mother

Mynd44 rule 3

Gajagojo:
I prefer new tires
You are stupid


She will die in shame

Mynd44 rules 2 and 3.

WrriterNg:
⚡Kamala Harris unveils budget-breaking $1.7 trillion "economic plan" that includes government price controls.

she will be the next president of the USA and under her rule, the USA will become a dictatorship. She's going to act more anti black than the head of KKK ever did. This is my humble opinion.

Malawian:
Give it another 2 months and they would have been completely cleared.

Chasov Yar is the primary objective for now. Once it is liberated, they will look into those upstarts in Kursk.

You don't get it. It seems you are getting bitten by nato-propanda. The aims of Ukraine were the nuclear power plant and distracting russian military front continuing smashing the Ukrainian military in the Donbas and the east of Ukraine. And you are suggesting that the Russians do just that after they have taken chassov yar. Your mind is weak. The Ukrainians in Kursk have already failed and are now bugged down in Kursk while they are urgently needed in the Donbas and the east of Ukraine. Russian reserves are dealing with the Ukrainians in Kursk.

Gajagojo:
bleed to death like a dog

Mynd44 rule 3

WrriterNg:
It's a modern thing bro, not American thing.

Modern thing started by America and being copied by many. It is just pure vanity and these towers are making the ground sink by the way.

WrriterNg:
The most shocking of all is Philippines! Like how come?


I guess i underrated them.

Skyscrapers are not good for the environment, people should stop copying America.

stanluiz:
No European countries ?

Europe don't build skyscrapers. I don't know why.

It is an American thing. In Paris they even limit the height a building can reach. There are few places in Paris in which you can see skyscrapers: "La Défense" and "Tour Montparnasse" and the Eiffel tower which is the first actual skyscraper that was created.
Europe emphasizes on building parks in big cities while the USA preferred building skyscrapers and denying pedestrians the right to see the sky.