Invented knowledge false history, fake science and pseudo-religions /

• Main Author: Fritze, Ronald H., 1951-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Reaktion Books, c2009.
• Subjects: Geschichte; History > Errors, inventions, etc.; Common fallacies.; Conspiracies.; Geographical myths.; Fraud in science.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Conspiracy Theories.; Pseudowetenschap.; Mythevorming.; Drogredenen.; Weltgeschichte; Irrtum; Fälschung; Verschwörungstheorie; Pseudoreligion; Electronic books.
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Invented Knowledge is an exploration of the murky world of fake science and pseudo-history: fields that generally rely on lost continents, ancient super-civilizations, conspiratorial cover-ups, preternaturally daring and undocumented discoveries, and even vast Satan-inspired plots to offer an altern...

Table of Contents:

• Atlantis: mother of pseudohistory
• Who's on first? The pseudohistory of the discovery and settlement of ancient America
• Mudpeople, Satan's spawn, and Christian identity: racist cosmogonies and pseudohistory, part 1
• Mad scientists, white devils, and the Nation of Islam: racist cosmogonies and pseudohistory, part 2
• Pseudohistoria epidemica or pseudohistorians in collusion
• Professors gone wild: the Black Athena controvery.