Practitioners of induction did not passively retreat in the face of critics’ claims.
Defenders cited peer reviews, especially in academic journals, as the key sites at which
historians confirm facts. An unwritten protocol in history directs book reviewers to
check facts and highlight errors. Simon Milton, for example, finds a series of factual
errors in FIFA and the Contest for World Football:
Cameroon’s opening match of the 1990 World Cup was against defending
champions Argentina, not the hosts; Saudi Arabia faced Sweden, not Germany,
in the second round of USA 1994; and Brazil faced and lost to Nigeria in the
semi-final of the 1996 Olympic tournament, not the final.