Implausible narratives

One may use a computer to search narratives that may be likely implausible or biased. We located such narratives by searching several texts on history for keywords such as

brutal, cruel, ruthless, arrogant, perverted,
adultery, corrupt, subvert, dominate

and examined the context of these target words. The search yielded the following sentences:

When on May 15, Anne Boleyn was condemned to death, Henry sent a personal message to Jane Seymour with the news. A day after Anne was executed, Henry VIII betrothed Jane Seymour. They married ten days later, on May 30th.

Louis XV, cruel and arrogant, he had ruthlessly cast hundreds of opponents into the dungeons of Bastille.
After storming the Bastille, 12 prisoners were found and released.

Empress Cixi was a staunch opponent of Christianization of China. As told by Sterling Seagrave in his 1992 book Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China she was not autocratic, ruthless and extravagant. This myth was created created by Edmund Backhouse in his 1910 book China Under the Dowager Empress and by Pearl Buck which perpetuated Backhouse's seamy depiction of the Empress. These authors, according to Seagrave, presented a ``bloodthirsty caricature'' of Tzu that mixed ``Western fantasy and Chinese pornography.'' Backhouse reported that Tzu's ascent to power included killing off enemies with poisoned cakes and that after gaining power she held wild sexual parties in the Imperial Palace. As commented by Kirkus Review, "Seagrave exposes Backhouse as a prurient fraud who willfully set out to create a fictitious empress who would satiate Western stereotypes of Asian women and justify British invasions of China."

Among the most vicious was the inculcation that Friedrich Nietzsche was frequenting prostitutes and acquired syphilis. In April 2003 issue of the Journal of Medical Biography, Dr Leonard Sax, the director of the Montgomery Center for Research in Maryland, published report that new medical evidence indicates that Friedrich Nietzsche died from brain cancer and not syphilis. Tracing the origins of the Nietzsche's syphilis legend, Sax found that the universally accepted story of Nietzsche having caught syphilis from prostitutes was concocted after the Second World War by Wilhelm Lange-Eichbaum (1947) who was one of Nietzsche's implacable enemies. Despite the lack of documentary or medical evidence, this allegation has since been repeated without questioning its veracity. Friedrich Nietzsche is best known for his epigraphic writing style:

Democracy means that people rule. Do you rule?

As soon as a religion comes to dominate,
it has as its opponents all those who
would have been its first disciples.

The time will come when one will take up Socrates
rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason.
Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being

able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that

wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest

state of the human soul.

And he also possessed the finer intellect.

In the case of victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy, the coarser

and more violent conquered the more spiritual and delicate.

A related story is that of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), also rumored of dying from syphilis, with Dr. Ashley Robins reporting in November, 2000 issue of the Lancet Medical Journal that his death was due to cholesteoma, which worsened while he was in the Reading Prison, incarcerated on the charges of homosexuality. Like Nietzsche, the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray is known for his aphorisms, such as

	Chapter I	Tragedy at Mayerling
	Chapter II	Death of a Princess
	Chapter III	Malediction
	Chapter IV	The First Casualty of War
	Chapter V	Credibility of Foreign Informants
	Chapter VI	Confabulations of Nurse Nayirah
	Chapter VII	Jumana Hanna and Sara Solovitch
	Chapter VIII	Origins of the First World War
	Chapter IX	Ritual Slaughter
	Chapter X	Search for Implausible Narratives