Pseudohistory

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Pseudohistory is the historical equivalent of pseudoscience. Pseudohistory typically blends together real history with myths and legends, without any attempt at criticism or fact checking. Pseudohistory often serves a political, nationalist or religious agenda.

The following have all been described as pseudohistory: Afrocentrism, creationism, and the works of Eric Von Daniken and Immanuel Velikovsky, and the mythology of most religions.

See also:

• Merry England
• dubious historical resources
• historical myths
• Apocrypha
• Book of Mormon
• Holocaust denial (also called Holocaust revisionism)
• Pseudoarchaeology

External links

• http://skepdic.com/pseudohs.html
• http://my.pclink.com/~allchin/papers/pseudo.pdf
• http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/american/skeptic-magazine/skeptic-13.html
• http://www.bearfabrique.org/velikovsky/velikovsky.htm

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Pseudohistory" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudohistory, used under the GNU Free Documentation License