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  2. Pseudohistory - Wikipedia

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    The term pseudohistory was coined in the early nineteenth century, which makes the word older than the related terms pseudo-scholarship and pseudoscience. [4] In an attestation from 1815, it is used to refer to the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, a purportedly historical narrative describing an entirely fictional contest between the Greek poets Homer and Hesiod. [5]

  3. Gavin Menzies - Wikipedia

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    Rowan Gavin Paton Menzies (14 August 1937 – 12 April 2020) [1] [2] [3] was a British submarine lieutenant-commander who authored books claiming that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus.

  4. History of pseudoscience - Wikipedia

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    The history of pseudoscience is the study of pseudoscientific theories over time. A pseudoscience is a set of ideas that presents itself as science, while it does not meet the criteria to properly be called such. [1] [2] Distinguishing between proper science and pseudoscience is sometimes difficult.

  5. Pseudo-scholarship - Wikipedia

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    Pseudo-scholarship (from pseudo-and scholarship) is a term used to describe work (e.g., publication, lecture) or a body of work that is presented as, but is not, the product of rigorous and objective study or research; the act of producing such work; or the pretended learning upon which it is based.

  6. Fringe theory - Wikipedia

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    [16] [17] In this sense, there is some overlap with other dismissive labels, such as pseudoarchaeology, [6] [18] pseudohistory, [6] and pseudoscience. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Describing ideas as fringe theories may be less pejorative than describing them as pseudoscholarship ; [ 21 ] while it is unlikely that anyone would identify their own work as ...

  7. Fringe science - Wikipedia

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    Fringe science theories are often advanced by people who have no traditional academic science background, or by researchers outside the mainstream discipline. [ 2 ] : 58 [ 3 ] The general public has difficulty distinguishing between science and its imitators, [ 2 ] : 173 and in some cases, a "yearning to believe or a generalized suspicion of ...

  8. Pseudoarchaeology - Wikipedia

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    Fantastic archaeology" was used during the 1980s as the name of an undergraduate course at Harvard University taught by Stephen Williams, who published a book with the same title. [9] During the 2000s, the term "alternative archaeology" began to be instead applied by academics like Tim Sebastion (2001), [ 10 ] Robert J. Wallis (2003), [ 11 ...

  9. Pseudoscientific metrology - Wikipedia

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    Most scholars and reviewers label Butler and Knight's work as pseudoscience. Aubrey Burl, a much-published digger of Megalithic sites and a lecturer in archaeology at Hull College of Higher Education, although he coauthored a book with Thom, [21] derided Thom's work, saying that he himself had never "seen a Megalithic Yard". Jason Colavito, in ...