Oh no! You've got to be kidding me! While looking for something in The Canterbury Tales on-line, I found this:

Transcriber's Note.
Modern scholars believe that Chaucer was not the author of these poems.

My world is teetering. Can it be?

Strange bit of marginalia that doesn't have much to do with the text that follows it. Does it refer to the Canterbury Tales or some other poems? No modern scholars are cited. In the end, it really doesn't matter who wrote them, but how good they are.

"Modern scholars"? What, all of them?

"Some modern scholars" I could accept. After all, you will find people ready and willing to argue almost any point of view if you look hard enough. Or perhaps it means that modern scholars believe that Chaucer was not the author of Spenser's poems? I'd go along with that...

"Modern scholars"? What, all of them?

Good point, arnie. You are right when you say that you can find people "...ready and willing to argue almost any point of view...." There are those who argue that the Holocaust never happened!

That is why evidence-based health care is taking off so well. It is a movement to analyze together all of the studies in a particular area. That way you know where there are gaps and where there is preponderance of evidence. It sounds like something like that could be done here.