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	Pseudohistory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pseudohistory describes claims about the past, which purport to be historic or supported by archeology, but which depart from standard practices of historical method and historiography to reach conclusions outside the domain of mainstream history.
		Pseudohistory may be called the analog of pseudoscience.
		Pseudohistory sometimes serves a political, nationalist, or religious agenda.
	www.airandspace.org /encyclopedia/Pseudohistory (555 words)

	Pseudohistory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pseudohistory is a pejorative term applied to texts which purport to be historical in nature but which depart from standard historiographical conventions in a way which undermines their conclusions.
		As "pseudohistory" is a label rather than a self-defined intellectual movement, a clear definition is not possible.
		Pseudohistory assumes that there is a correct historiographical method, and ultimately a single objectively true account of a given set of facts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pseudohistory (385 words)

	pseudohistory
		Pseudohistory should be distinguished from the ancient texts it is based on.
		Some of it is pseudohistory, some of it is flawed history and some of it isn't history at all.
		The History of Pseudohistory by Rocky One could not find a better specimen of the principles of relativism, historicism, subjectivism, and extreme skepticism at work.If you want to get inside the mind of a pseudohistorian, Rocky's is accessible to anyone who can read English.
	skepdic.com /pseudohs.html (852 words)

	History and Pseudohistory(index) - SkepticWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pseudohistory is counterfeit history, which appears to be researched, but which lacks the underpinning of sound historical, archaeological, and scholarly methods on which real historical knowledge rests.
		Then there are the hoax artifacts of pseudohistory, such as the Shroud of Turin, or the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
		The reader will notice that the various kinds of pseudohistory, and the various different motivations for producing it, correspond fairly well to similar errors with similar motivations in pseudoscience, and this is no coincidence: the subject may be different, but the ways to think wrong-headedly about a subject remain the same.
	www.skepticwiki.org /wiki/index.php/History_and_Pseudohistory(index) (500 words)

	Pseudohistory: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pseudohistory typically blends together real history with myth myth quick summary:
		A myth is often thought to be a lesson in story form which has deep explanatory or symbolic resonance for preliterate cultures, who preserve and cherish the wisdom...
		Pseudohistory often serves a political Politics quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/ps/pseudohistory.htm (1064 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: orgs/american/skeptic.magazine/skeptic.13
		Also, victims of inhumanity are granted a certain amount of moral authority--strip them of that and you take away their power.
		Native-Americans are also recapturing their past, but in the process some are blaming the white European male for all that is evil in the world.
		The solution to the problem of pseudohistory is not just in refuting the claims of pseudohistorians.
	www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.cgi/ftp.py?orgs/american/skeptic.magazine/skeptic.13 (712 words)

	Graham Hancock - SkepticWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1992 he published his first work of pseudohistory, The Sign And the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant, which promised to reveal “the most shattering historical secret of the last three thousand years”.
		Hancock does not publish, nor, so far as is known, attempt to publish, any of his conjectures in archeological journals, nor, indeed, does he indulge in anything so mundane and laborious as an archeological dig, being one of those who prefers to pursue his “quests” from the comfort of his armchair.
		This assumes as axiomatic that many ancient monument complexes were laid out so as to represent constellations of stars, a notion for which there is not a shred of historical evidence.
	www.skepticwiki.org /wiki/index.php/Graham_Hancock (1737 words)

	GenePoool Blog
		He used what he thought was a work of historical research, but what was actually a work of pseudohistory.
		If you're unscrupulous, or have an agenda to push, and you're at least a little bit creative, the field of pseudohistory is definitely for you.
		All you need to do is take a snippet of history, research the hell out of it, pull out the parts that agree with your thesis and throw away the rest, and start writing your book.
	www.genepoool.com /2006/05/argument-in-favor-of-state-sponsored.html (421 words)

	Pseudohistory in Jerry Vardaman's magic coins: the nonsense of micro graphic letters.(Critical Essay) - Skeptical ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pseudohistory in Jerry Vardaman's magic coins: the nonsense of micro graphic letters.(Critical Essay)
		Instead, a date of 12 B.C. is arrived at using nonexistent microletters on a stone inscription (the very same Lapis Venetus).
		Hopefully this pseudohistory can be seen for what it is. Any claim based on this work must be held in the highest suspicion.
	highbeam.com /library/docfree.asp?DOCID=1G1:83585959&... (1788 words)

	RatherNotBlog » Blog Archive » Gone with the Windsor Report? (part two) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In part one, I pointed out the pseudohistory in respect to the “ordination” of women created by the Lambeth Commission in paragraphs 12 to 21 of the Windsor Report (and if anyone wants further confirmation of just how pseudo that pseudohistory is, I urge them to click here to read Fr.
		One portion of this section, “On elections to the episcopate” (paragraphs 124 to 135), is to me the most significant, because it assumes, on the basis of the pseudohistory of paragraphs 12 to 21, that what is at stake in the controversy over Gene Robinson is the concept of the episcopate.
		Once again, we must return to the pseudohistory of paragraphs 12 to 21; for implicit there is the idea that a province making women “priests” is perfectly acceptable; it only becomes a problem when they are made bishops.
	rathernot.classicalanglican.net /index.php?p=53 (2544 words)

	MICHAEL SHERMER
		In Shermer's words, "Science and history are cumulative and progressive in that they continue to improve and refine knowledge of our world and our past based on new observations and interpretations.
		Pseudohistory and pseudoscience, if they change at all, change primarily for personal, political, or ideological reasons" (p.
		He devotes the majority of his book to an examination of phenomena which, when viewed from the perspectives and methodologies of the skeptic and scientist, give us little if any reason to believe in their existence.
	www.sheftman.com /ewrt1a/shermer (1317 words)

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		Respectful Insolence is a repository for the ramblings of the aforementioned pseudonymous surgeon/scientist concerning medicine and quackery, science and pseudoscience, history and pseudohistory, politics, and anything else that interests him (or pushes his buttons).
		You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that it loses itself early and does not find itself any more.
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	Pseudohistory Term Papers, Essay Research Paper Help, Essays on Pseudohistory
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	The Newsletter of The North Texas Skeptics
		The Holocaust, like evolution, is robustly supported and generally accepted by all but a fringe minority, but it must nevertheless be continually tested, regularly revised, and constantly improved.
		This is an exercise in historical and scientific methodology to demonstrate that pseudohistory cannot succeed when scientific methodology is applied to studying the past.
		Also, victims of inhumanity are granted a certain amount of moral authoritystrip them of that and you take away their power.
	www.ntskeptics.org /1994/1994august/august1994.htm (4946 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Pseudohistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Pseudohistory; all previous versions may be viewed here.
		They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Pseudohistory (505 words)

	BrainDex the knowledge source - Free Online Encyclopedia - Pseudohistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BrainDex the knowledge source - Free Online Encyclopedia - Pseudohistory
		Pseudohistory typically blends together real history with myths and legends, without any attempt at criticism or fact checking.
		Olaus Rudbeckius (1630-1702), author of Atlantica, in which he tries to prove that Scandinavia is really identical to the mythical Atlantis.
	www.braindex.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Pseudohistory (104 words)

	Wikinfo \| Pseudohistory
		The following have all been described as pseudohistory:
		This article could probably be made more complete should you wish to do so.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Pseudohistory (145 words)

	ZAMIR-CHAT-LIST Archives - September 2000, week 1
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	listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0009a&L=zamir-chat-list (134 words)

	Jim Snowden's Second Omnibus: Pseudohistory and Its Discontents
		Jim Snowden's Second Omnibus: Pseudohistory and Its Discontents
		M.Y. posted again today about Yalta, saying that two contrarian writers (one in the New Republic and the other in Reason) made convincing cases concerning why Bush tried to reframe Yalta as an foul bargain between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. He goes on to say this:
		This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
	jsomnibus.blogspot.com /2005/05/pseudohistory-and-its-discontents.html (585 words)

	Puritan Belief: Dan Brown - Da Vinci Code
		What it most heavily relies on for 'proof' is Holy Blood, Holy Grail written in 1982 by Michael Baigent (A conspiricy theorist), Richard Leigh(a novelist), and Henry Lincoln(a writer and TV actor).
		argued that the bulk of the claims, mysteries and conspiracies presented as fact were concocted by the authors, making Holy Blood a work of pseudohistory, and thus so is the Da Vinci Code, as Holy Blood, Holy Grail is its strongest 'evidence' text.
		Credible, mainstream historians and archeologists work according to established standards of academic research.
	puritanbelief.blogspot.com /2006/03/dan-brown-da-vinci-code.html (2647 words)

	1994: VOLUME 2, NUMBER 4: PSEUDOHISTORY Features 6 Skeptics' Forum: Letters Herod--Father (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By James Randi Special Section on Pseudohistory Holocaust Revisionism 32 Proving the Holocaust: The Refutation of Revisionism & the Restoration of History.
		By Michael Shermer 58 Giving the Devil His Due: Holocaust Revisionism as a Test Case for Free Speech and the Skeptical Ethic.
		Pseudodiscovery 88 Goodbye Columbus?: The Pseudohistory of Who Discovered America.
	www.skepticfiles.org /skmag/sk940204.htm (214 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dubious historical resources; H. Holocaust denial; P. Priory of Sion hoax; Y. Young Earth creationism; Pages in category "Pseudohistory" There are 40 pages in this section of this category.
		Pseudohistory The Da Vinci Code Cult (article) Robert Sheaffer takes a critical look at Dan Brown's bestselling cult hit.
		The Wiccans of today are part of an unbroken chain that predates Judaism
	pseudohistory.iqexpand.com /index.php?title=Recentchangeslinked&target=Pseudohistory (271 words)

	Atlantis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The New Atlantis and the Dangers of Pseudohistory
		The back portion of the 50-foot-wide tier is partially covered with sand and has smaller stone blocks comprising it...
		Since the original publication of Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods in 1995 there has been a remarkable revival in speculative or "alternative" answers to this basic question...The New Atlantis is fast colonizing modern views of the ancient past.
	www.marsearthconnection.com /atlantis.html (6116 words)

	The Newsletter of The North Texas Skeptics
		If you missed the North Texas Skeptics public program held on July 29, you missed a wonderful presentation by NTS President Joe Voelkering addressing the issue of pseudohistory.
		Michael Shermer has pointed out that pseudohistory is as important to the skeptic community as is pseudoscience (see Pseudohistory: Proving the Holocaust by Prof.
		Typically, they'd done it by citing partial quotes that implied a meaning different from the context of the full version.
	www.ntskeptics.org /1994/1994september/september1994.htm (4438 words)

	The Historian's Lincoln Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and History - BORITT,GABOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Historian's Lincoln Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and History - BORITT,GABOR
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	www.antiqbook.com /boox/ver/007946.shtml (67 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Historian's Lincoln: Pseudohistory, Psychohistory, and History: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.
		The only reason I say this is that I imagine the book maybe has some connection with Lloyd deMause's Internet stuff on psychohistory.
		On the other hand, because of the first word 'Pseudohistory' maybe the book would be a debunker of various myths, and maybe it would be worth a look!
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0252065441 (1243 words)

	Kryptic Tales of Middle-earth
		We don't often hear about the ghost stories people must have told each other in Middle-earth.
		Tolkien's work is permeated with well-crafted legends that are usually founded in fact (within the scope of his pseudohistory), but when you stop to consider the immense expanses of time the pseudohistory of Middle-earth covers, you have to wonder just how far-fetched some of those legends must have become.
		Everyone has heard the story about the lunatic who escapes from an insane asylum and nearly kills a young couple on a dark road, leaving his claw hanging on the car door (this would have to be a very old car, of course).
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/tolkien/38329 (432 words)

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		Contributors to 'The Historian's Lincoln' focus on one of the most fundamental issues of Lincoln scholarship-whether Lincoln's ultimate commitment was to union or to liberty-shedding new light on a number of opposing views of Lincoln as they do so.
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