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Noun Concept

Categories: Barriers to critical thinking, Fiction, Fringe theory, Pseudohistory

pseudohistory cryptohistory false history folk-history incorrect history

Pseudohistory is a form of pseudoscholarship that attempts to distort or misrepresent the historical record, often by employing methods resembling those used in scholarly historical research. Wikipedia

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Pseudoscholarship that attempts to distort or misrepresent the historical record Wikidata

Any work that claims to be history, but does not use established historiographical methods; especially one that uses disputed evidence and speculation rather than relying on the analysis of primary sources. Wiktionary

Any work that claims to be history, but does not use established historiographical methods. Wiktionary (translation)

The contemptible trick practised by Mr. Anderson, in the first chapter of his pseudo-history, must not pass without due correction. ( The Critical review: or, Annals of literature, Volume 1, ed. Tobias George Smollett, 1815, p. 152). Wiktionary

IS A

pseudo-scholarship

HAS KIND

Irish slaves myth

HAS INSTANCE

Allah as a lunar deity

Laichinger Hungerchronik

Black Egyptian hypothesis

Japanese-Jewish common ancestry theory

FACET OF

history

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