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

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I agree that acceptance of opinion is important but there is also something weirdly 21st century and post-modern about denying that some level of factual evidence is important in terms of basing one’s belief. After all, the main issue with wokism is not that it seeks to impose evidence based thinking, but rather it closes itself to such thinking, on matters such as the heritability of intelligence, for example or on sexual dimorphism in humans. I remember in the podcast with Tom Holland you suggested that the interpretation of the Anglo-Saxon settlement as being an admixture of the host population with an immigrant elite was ‘woke’ but as Tom Holland correctly pointed out, this is simply based on genetic evidence not a political statement. Now how you interpret that genetic evidence is one thing, but the simple genetic data suggests that the pre-Roman population of Britain simply wasn’t wiped out and whatever happened (and we don’t really know) the simple narrative simply didn’t happen. Leopold, Jason (14 January 2008). "House Passes, Considers Evangelical Resolutions". www.baltimorechronicle.com . Retrieved 30 April 2019.

Doar o vorbă SĂȚ-I mai spun". George Pruteanu (in Romanian). 26 March 1996 . Retrieved 21 January 2020. At Waterloo 65,000 French were defeated by Wellington’s 70,000, about 8,000 French were defeated by Blucher’s eventual 50,000, and 33,000 French at Wavre weren’t defeated by anybody at all. The 65,000 Wellington defeated included all the heavy cavalry and the Old Guard. If he had not held off the French, the last intact Prussian corps would have been defeated too leaving four broken corps stranded between two French armies. The idea that matriarchal societies existed and they preceded patriarchal societies was first raised in the 19th-century among Western academics, but it has since been discredited. [64] James L. Houlden (2003). Jesus in History, Thought, and Culture: Entries A–J. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-57607-856-3.

I agree, from the article it seems like this book is just an interpretation of certain historical facts aimed at the gerneral public who may or may not know them.. the “lies” it contains may well be revelations for some people. After Waterloo the Prussians went on a looting spree across northern France which prolonged French resistance to them. Wellington’s army did not and paid for its supplies, so there was next to no military resistance to him at all. Mark H is simply saying that Otto English’s being an anti-Brexit firebrand supports the argument being made in this article that English’s views of human events (both current and historical) tend toward the Manichaen. You are either right or wrong. You are either good or evil. You are either telling the truth or lying. Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, better known as The Fake History Hunter, is on a one-woman mission to hunt down fake history and reclaim the truth for the rest of us.

I find his account completely convincing, partly because it has been happening in India for decades. As a very unimportant cog in that story, but allied to the doughty Narayani Gupta, I saw this with my own eyes. A large number of nationalist pseudohistorical theories deal with the legendary Ten Lost Tribes of ancient Israel. British-Israelism, also known as Anglo-Israelism, the most famous example of this type, has been conclusively refuted by mainstream historians using evidence from a vast array of different fields of study. [34] [35] [36] Of animals, he classified nine species of mammalia, and five of ovipara. Among the former is a small kind of rein-deer, the elk, the moose, the horned bear, and the biped beaver. The last resembles the beaver of the earth in every other respect than in its destitution of a tail, and its invariable habit of walking upon only two feet. It carries its young in its arms like a human being, and moves with an easy gliding motion. GREAT ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERIES Lately Made, The Sun, Thursday, August 27, 1835Cheterian 2015, pp.65–66. "Some of the proponents of this official narrative have even gone so far as to claim that the Armenians were the real aggressors, and that Muslim losses were greater than those of the Armenians." harvnb error: no target: CITEREFCheterian2015 ( help) There was some skepticism about her claim when she was unable to provide any detail about her assailant, but another report of a similar occurrence some days later lent credence to her story.

a b Fritze, Ronald. "Ronald H. Fritze, On his book Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions, Cover Interview". July 08, 2009. Rorotoko.com . Retrieved July 17, 2012.It is in the perceived interests of the ultra-right to turn the whole of history into a series of two-dimensional incidents, with events and characters either (wholly) good or (wholly) bad. Their behaviour becomes saintly or dastardly, heroic or cowardly etc. Feder, Kenneth L. (2010). Encyclopedia of Dubious Archaeology: From Atlantis to the Walam Olum. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-37919-2. I guess the complexity comes from the fact that there is no bright-line between opinion and fact. To say that the middle ages were a benighted era of superstition has some basis in fact and is an opinion that can be held with the historical record. To say that medieval thinkers thought the world was flat can easily be disproven with a visit to Hereford cathedral to see the Mappa Mundi with one’s own eyes. The term pseudohistory was coined in the early nineteenth century, which makes the word older than the related terms pseudo-scholarship and pseudoscience. [3] 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. [4] The pejorative sense of the term, labelling a flawed or disingenuous work of historiography, is found in another 1815 attestation. [5] Pseudohistory is akin to pseudoscience in that both forms of falsification are achieved using the methodology that purports to, but does not, adhere to the established standards of research for the given field of intellectual enquiry of which the pseudoscience claims to be a part, and which offers little or no supporting evidence for its plausibility. [6] :7–18

I should not do justice to…Marshal Blücher and the Prussian army, if I did not attribute the successful result of this arduous day to the cordial and timely assistance I received from them.” Lakshmi, Rama (4 January 2015). "Indians invented planes 7,000 years ago — and other startling claims at the Science Congress". The Washington Post . Retrieved 30 April 2019.

Of course, he’s not alone in twisting history to further his political goals. In Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey, school books have been modified to de-emphasise Ataturk, the founder of the secular republic. It’s all part of an effort to reverse that legacy and glorify the Ottoman past, as Erdoğan carves out ever more powers for himself. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is a fraudulent work purporting to show a historical conspiracy for world domination by Jews. [22] The work was conclusively proven to be a forgery in August 1921, when The Times revealed that extensive portions of the document were directly plagiarized from Maurice Joly's 1864 satirical dialogue The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, [23] as well as Hermann Goedsche's 1868 anti-Semitic novel Biarritz. [24] Wellington fought two battles and won both, outnumbered on both occasions. The only allied victories of 1815 were those at which Wellington was present. The only tactical reverse he suffered was the loss of La Haye Sainte; every other French move against him failed. The belief that Ancient India was technologically advanced to the extent of being a nuclear power is gaining popularity in India. [103] Emerging extreme nationalist trends and ideologies based on Hinduism in the political arena promote these discussions. Vasudev Devnani, the education minister for the western state of Rajasthan, said in January 2017 that it was important to "understand the scientific significance" of the cow, as it was the only animal in the world to both inhale and exhale oxygen. [104] In 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a gathering of doctors and medical staff at a Mumbai hospital that the story of the Hindu god Ganesha showed genetic science existed in ancient India. [105] Many new age pseudohistorians who focus on converting mythological stories into history are well received among the crowd. Indian Science Congress ancient aircraft controversy is a related event when Capt. Anand J. Bodas, retired principal of a pilot training facility, claimed that aircraft more advanced than today's versions existed in ancient India at the Indian Science Congress. [106] As a topic of study [ edit ] Dietz, Robert S. "Ark-Eology: A Frightening Example of Pseudo-Science" in Geotimes 38:9 (Sept. 1993) p. 4.

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