4 Darwin’s dictum on false facts and false views points the way to opening the 5 road to truth via cogent criticism of the published record. Here I discuss a case in 6 which a truncated dataset (false facts) is used for coalescent analysis of historical 7 demography that reaches a foregone conclusion of a bottleneck of numbers (false 8 views). 9 “False facts are highly injurious to the progress...