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.

The following have all been described as pseudohistory: Afrocentrism, creationism, and the works of Erich von Däniken and Immanuel Velikovsky, Christianity, Islam.

See also:

• Deep England
• dubious historical resources
• historical myths
• Holocaust revisionism
• New World Negationism

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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