Pseudohistory

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.

Whether a particular view constitutes pseudohistory or not is often a controversial topic.

Alleged examples and authors of pseudohistory include:

• Anti-Catholicism
• Black Legend (see also White Legend)
• Celtomania
• Deep England
• Epsilon Team
• Greater Serbia
• Holocaust denial (also called Holocaust revisionism)
• Lobsang Rampa
• Immanuel Velikovsky
• New Chronology
• Nazism, Aryan race etc.
• Olaus Rudbeckius (1630–1702), author of Atlantica, in which he tries to prove that Scandinavia is really identical to the mythical Atlantis.

See Also:

• Historical myths
• List of dubious historical resources
• National mysticism
• Pseudoarchaeology
• Pseudoscience

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

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