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, and the mythology of most religions.

See also:

• Deep England
• List of dubious historical resources
• Historical myths
• Olaus Rudbeckius (1630-1702), author of Atlantica, in which he tries to prove that Scandinavia is really identical to the mythical Atlantis.
• Holocaust denial (also called Holocaust revisionism)
• Pseudoarchaeology
• New Chronology
• National mysticism
• Epsilon Team (an ultra-nationalistic exagerration of Greek History mixed with conspiracy theories)
• Nazism, Aryan race etc
• Greater Serbia

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