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In academic circles the late 20th century saw the culmination of the practice where no academic ever criticised the blunderings of any other academic.
Well, that shows Berkley to be an ignoramus with an axe to grind. Let's list some genuine 20th-century historical controversies. These are from WWII and related history, because that's what I know the most about.
There are many, many more. Disputing other people's historical theories is one of the primary ways that historians improve their understanding of history.
(This is used in support of Berkley's controversial thesis, that the ancient Egyptians spoke Welsh.)
That's not controversial. It's nonsense. The only way he could support that claim would be if everyone who has learned Ancient Egyptian were part of a conspiracy to conceal its being a Celtic language, part of the Indo-European family. Since Egyptian is an Afro-Asiatic language, that makes his idea less linguistically plausible than the Black Egyptian hypothesis, which is quite a feat.
Since the titles of Grant Berkley's other books are The Discovery of the Ark of the Covenant and The King Arthur Conspiracy, you can safely write him off as a conspiracy theorist and a pseudo-historian.
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After some renewed googling I managed to find articles relating to the TΔrtΔria tablets, which seem to fit the bill quite well, but I'd still be interested to learn about other cases.
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Some historical disputes even became books, as in Scientists Confront Velikovsky.
Many more propaganda masquerading as history was and is heavily criticized. Such "history textbooks" were and are fairly common in autocratic countries, and, of course, heavily criticized.
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There are even disputes in the 21st century, e.g. around Christopher Clark's Sleepwalkers or about whether there actually ever was a Cathar heresy.