276°
Posted 20 hours ago

Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

£4.995£9.99Clearance
ZTS2023's avatar
Shared by
ZTS2023
Joined in 2023
82
63

About this deal

Thanks, History, for making it someone else's job to remind everyone that you can't trust a conspiracy nut, even one who gets to be on the History Channel. In response, the History Channel promised that they have a team of experts "exploring the latest developments about Amelia Earhart," and they will surely keep the public informed if she should pop up again. After PolitiFact exposed the truth, Stewart had to apologize on the air and accept that site's "Truth-O-Meter" rating of "Pants on Fire.

history of fake news | Reference and Before Trump: the real history of fake news | Reference and

Later released on DVD, the special sought to educate viewers on the origins of numerous Christmas traditions, and how observances of the holiday have evolved over time. A common feature of pseudohistory is an underlying premise that scholars have a furtive agenda to suppress the promotor's thesis—a premise commonly corroborated by elaborate conspiracy theories. Here are some of the biggest scandals to hit the History Channel, and historical inaccuracy is just the beginning. The Mother Goddess Hypothesis and Its Critics," in Handbook of Gender in Archaeology, Sarah Milledge Nelson (ed. The problem with the series is that it doesn't just stick to the real story, and it's not because the real story is super boring, either.And while it’s tempting to think the rewriting of history is something found exclusively in illiberal or dictatorial systems, it has increasingly become a feature of democracies. Other Nationalist histories have strong pseudohistorical influences, including Kurdish, Albanian, Turkish, Arab and Germanic. It was a bit like an ancient version of a politician today releasing a book or sending out a social media post. They didn't say why, but it might have had something to do with the fact that digging up corpses is morbid and morally bankrupt. Director Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey wowed audiences in 1968 for creating a realistic image of outer space.

Pseudohistory - Wikipedia

According to Meaww, History's "The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch" was supposed to be a level-headed, scientific analysis of the weird things that happen on the infamous Utah ranch, but when you really sit down and watch the show (which no one should because eek, skinwalkers) you begin to suspect that maybe the team is just using science to try and back up what they already think they know is happening.In Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey, school books have been modified to de-emphasise Ataturk, the founder of the secular republic. He eagerly amplifies far-right conspiracy theories about the Christian majority being threatened by demographic “replacement”.

check your car’s service history | Auto Express How to check your car’s service history | Auto Express

If in fact the main motivation for believing in the moon hoax that is you don’t trust the government, you don’t trust our leaders, you don’t trust authority, how can you feel that 400,000 people would keep their mouths shut for 50 years? To win the war, Octavian knew he had to have the public on his side – winning important battles helped, but if the people didn’t like him, he would not be a successful ruler. Later in the video, it’s revealed that Jordan Peele is doing some sort of voice over, putting the words into President Obama’s mouth, yet the movement of President Obama’s mouth and head seem natural.

But according to Donald Ruh, who was once in possession of both of those documents, the two have nothing to do with each other.

Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

Swamp People" rounds out the chaotic triumvirate of the History Channel's most inexplicable reality shows, alongside "Ice Road Truckers" and "Pawn Stars . The pejorative sense of the term, labelling a flawed or disingenuous work of historiography, is found in another 1815 attestation. Most people intuitively understand the sheer stupidity of this idea, because if it were actually true that the government was filling the air with chemicals in a bid to mind-control everyone, they appear to be really, really bad at it.To those who know the moon landing was real, conspiracy theories that it was a hoax may seem silly and innocuous. The channel was jokingly known as the "Hitler Channel" in the '90s, after all, and they haven't forgotten their roots. This particular map includes a drawing of the island and looks like it got torn out of a journal someone purchased at the Dollar Tree, but the notes are in French. According to NPR, though, there was a time when lumberjacks used to put felled trees on rafts and float them down the river, and every now and then the trees would fall off the raft and sink to the bottom. There's even an astrophysicist on the program — because astrophysics are totally relevant here — and even his theories seem to lean more religious than scientific.

Asda Great Deal

Free UK shipping. 15 day free returns.
Community Updates
*So you can easily identify outgoing links on our site, we've marked them with an "*" symbol. Links on our site are monetised, but this never affects which deals get posted. Find more info in our FAQs and About Us page.
New Comment