Pseudo-scholarship
Pretended but not actual scholarship
Pseudo-scholarship (from pseudo- and scholarship) is a term used to describe work (e.g., publication, lecture) or a body of work that is presented as, but is not, the product of rigorous and objective study or research; the act of producing such work; or the pretended learning upon which it is based.[1]
Examples of pseudo-scholarship include:
- Pseudoarchaeology
- Pseudohistory[2]
- Pseudolinguistics
- Pseudomathematics
- Pseudophilosophy
- Pseudoscience[3]
See also
- Chaos magic
- Conspiracy theory
- Counterknowledge
- Crackpot index
- Crank (person)
- Fallacy
- Fringe science
- Fringe theory
- Ignoratio elenchi
- Junk science
- Mathematical Cranks
- Predatory journal
- Proto-science
References
- ^ Jerome V. Jacobsen, "Notes and Comment: Pseudo-scholarship", Mid-America: An Historical Review, Volumes 23–24, (Chicago: Loyola University, 1941) p. 315
- Steve J. Stern, "Between Tragedy and Promise", in Gilbert Michael Joseph, Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001) p. 33
- Shaye J. D. Cohen, "In Memoriam Morton Smith", in Shaye J. D. Cohen, Studies in the Cult of Yahweh, Vol. 2: New Testament, Early Christianity, & Magic (Leiden: BRILL, 1996) p. 285
- ^ Marshall Fishwick, American Studies in Transition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969) p. 265-266
- ^ Jeremy Bernstein, A Comprehensible World: On Modern Science and Its Origins, 2nd ed. (New York: Random House, 1967) p. 193
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