In the consistent histories formulation of quantum theory, the probabi
listic predictions and retrodictions made from observed data depend on
the choice of a consistent set. We show that this freedom allows the
formalism to retrodict contrary propositions which correspond to ortho
gonal commuting projections and which each have probability one. We al
so show that the formalism makes contrary probability one predictions
when applied to Gell-Mann and Hartle's generalized time-neutral quantu
m mechanics.