Pseudohistory | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 04/10/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudohistory


00:01:54 1 Definition and etymology
00:03:33 2 Characteristics
00:06:41 3 Categories and examples
00:07:08 3.1 Ancient aliens, ancient technologies, and lost lands
00:10:08 3.2 Antisemitic pseudohistory
00:11:34 3.3 Alternative chronologies
00:12:28 3.4 Historical falsification
00:13:30 3.5 Historical revisionism
00:14:34 3.6 Ethnocentric revisionism
00:16:12 3.7 Racist pseudohistory
00:17:00 3.8 Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories
00:17:43 3.9 Psychohistory
00:18:30 3.10 Religious pseudohistory
00:20:37 3.10.1 Hinduism
00:22:02 4 As a topic of study
00:22:12 4.1 Undergraduate
00:22:29 5 See also



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SUMMARY
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Pseudohistory is a form of pseudoscholarship that attempts to distort or misrepresent the historical record, often using methods resembling those used in legitimate historical research. The related term cryptohistory is applied to a pseudohistory based upon or derived from the superstitions inherent to occultism. Pseudohistory is related to pseudoscience and pseudoarchaeology and usage of the terms may occasionally overlap. Although pseudohistory comes in many forms, scholars have identified many features that tend to be common in pseudohistorical works. One such feature is that pseudohistory is nearly always motivated by a contemporary political, religious, or personal agenda. Pseudohistory also frequently presents a big lie or sensational claims about historical facts which would require the radical revision (re-writing) of the historical record.
Another very common feature of pseudohistory is the assumption that there is a conspiracy among scholars to suppress the "true" history. Works of pseudohistory often rely exclusively on sources that appear to support the thesis being promoted while ignoring sources that contradict it. Many works of pseudohistory treat myths, legends, and other unreliable sources as literal historical truth while ignoring or dismissing evidence to the contrary. Sometimes a work of pseudohistory may adopt a position of extreme skepticism, sometimes insisting that there is really no such thing as historical truth and that any hypothesis is just as good as any other. Many works of pseudohistory conflate mere possibility with actuality, assuming that if something could have happened, then it did.