Scientific American reports on Elizabeth Loftus in Evidence-Based Justice Acknowledges Our Corrupt Memories.
What is desperately needed in the flawed humanities is an application of Loftus's evidence-based principles to historical studies in general, especially Archaeology, Biblical Studies, Assyriology, Historical Linguistics, etc. where erroneous and unproven, "authority-based" theories run rampant and often prevail as accepted schools of thought in academic circles, often contrary to the real, probative evidence.