No one is insisting that Society leaders become "historical revisionists." I think, though, we can reaonably insist that these guardians of the truth at least attempt to get real history straight, that they not march in unthinking lockstep with the purveyors of popular historical fictions. "(H)istorical revisionists" is a phrase, like "conspiracy theorists" which creates an instant stigma against alternative historical renderings and frees detractors from the responsibility of having to answer serious challenges to the historical narrative.