  Since Stephen Hawking's original 1975 paper on black hole evaporation, there
has been a consensus that the problem of "loss of information" is both deep and
troubling. It is also thought that resolution of the problem may hold some
conceptual keys to the unification of gravity with the other forces. I argue
that this consensus view is mistaken. The so-called "information loss paradox"
arises rather from the inaccurate application of foundational principles,
involving both mathematical and conceptual errors. The resources for resolving
the "paradox" are familiar and uncontroversial, as has been pointed out in the
literature. The problem ought to have been dismissed 40 years ago. Recent
radical attempts to solve the problem are blind alleys, solutions in search of
a problem.
