psycholinguists

Seems like just such a linguistic analysis was at the heart of Mr. Foster's research. A century of belief in a lie does not make it the truth. Witness long held beliefs that the common belief during the 15th century was that the Earth was flat and that Columbus was right in his opposition to those beliefs. Columbus and everybody else who cared to look at the evidence knew the Earth was round; Columbus was off by quite a bit regarding the size of the Earth.