Is the fake "truth" better than nothing at all?

Both Warburton and Boswell had pretty much dedicated their lives to the works and life of William Shakespeare.  This is why they were so easily duped by the forgeries of William-Henry Ireland.  Warburton and Boswell were looking for evidence and authentic works of Shakespeare's genius... they wanted the forgeries to be real so their scholarly logical defenses were weakened by the very nature of the subject that they had dedicated their lives to.  They desired, maybe more than anything else, to discover and handle a true Shakesperean artifact and thus that had inadvertantly led them to the humiliation brought on by the forgeries of William-Henry Ireland.  From my experience handling the old books, more like tomes, was very exciting and somewhat surreal.  Just thinking that people almost 400 years ago have been touching and handling the same objects of interest that I was... that is some crazy reality.  It puts perspective on the whole idea of "Shakespeare as a literary god," I mean he has been practically worshipped for almost four centuries now.  His folio and the near perfect forgeries of Ireland are but pieces of the puzzle on how Shakespeare has risen to an untoppable height.  A lowly playwright in England around 1600 is somehow more famous than the queen of England in that time period... I feel that this anamoly was trying to be answered by Warburton and Boswell.  But unfortunately for them, they were mislead by those forgeries.  They desired to peer into Shakespeare's life through an object or personal manuscript that Shakespeare himself had written, they wanted to get to know the legend of Shakespeare on a more intimate, personal level.  Maybe they believed that Shakespeare had written a diary or journal entry in one of his works, so that would give cause to why they had so easily believed the forgeries?  It is all speculation since no known personal journals of Shakespeare have been found; hardly anything with his own handwriting has even been found!  The discovery of a diary handwritten by William Shakespeare would be monumental, the greatest discovery of our day and age since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1946.  But in the meantime, we, as literary learners, will have to make do with the forgeries of William-Henry Ireland because learning even a little about Shakespeare is better than being forever in the dark.