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The ancient astronaut hypothesis was further popularized in the United States by the History Channel television series Ancient Aliens. [15] History professor Ronald H. Fritze observed that the pseudohistorical claims promoted by von Däniken and the Ancient Aliens program have a periodic popularity in the US: [6] [16] "In a pop culture with a short memory and a voracious appetite, aliens and pyramids and lost civilizations are recycled like fashions." [6] :201 [16] a b "The view of matriarchy as constituting a stage of cultural development now is generally discredited. Furthermore, the consensus among modern anthropologists and sociologists is that a strictly matriarchal society never existed." Encyclopædia Britannica (2007), entry Matriarchy. Is on a mission, not a quest, seeking to support some contemporary political or religious agenda rather than find out the truth about the past
I haven’t read Otto English’s book, and am not likely too, if it’s anything like as bad as Sandbrook says it is. Arthur is still important even if he didn’t have a round table. Newton figured out that planetary orbits and falling objects were the same phenomenon, whether an apple was involved or not. And Neptune may not have gifted the most beautiful island in the world to his son, but it’s still a beautiful island, In her books, starting with The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921), English author Margaret Murray claimed that the witch trials in the early modern period were actually an attempt by chauvinistic Christians to annihilate a secret, pagan religion, [89] which she claimed worshipped a Horned God. [89] Murray's claims have now been widely rejected by respected historians. [90] [91] [89] Nonetheless, her ideas have become the foundation myth for modern Wicca, a contemporary Neopagan religion. [91] [92] Belief in Murray's alleged witch-cult is still prevalent among Wiccans, [92] but is gradually declining. [92]
When comedian Stephen Fry won a VIP edition of BBC quiz show Mastermind in 2004, he remarked how fitting it was for the trophy to be qualified by the word “Celebrity”. Dacianism is a Romanian pseudohistorical current that attempts to attribute far more influence over European and world history to the Dacians than that which they actually enjoyed. [40] Dacianist historiography claims that the Dacians held primacy over all other civilizations, including the Romans; [41] that the Dacian language was the origin of Latin and all other languages, such as Hindi and Babylonian; [42] and sometimes that the Zalmoxis cult has structural links to Christianity. [43] Dacianism was most prevalent in National Communist Romania, as the Ceaușescu regime portrayed the Dacians as insurgents defying an "imperialist" Rome; the Communist Party had formally attached "protochronism", as Dacianism was known, to Marxist ideology by 1974. [44] Historical falsification [ edit ] Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, a scene from which is shown in this fifteenth-century illumination, was a popular work of pseudohistory during the Middle Ages.
a b Shermer, Michael; Grobman, Alex (2009). Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?. Oakland, California: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-26098-6. Now, long after the war, the story has been attributed to MI7. In the employ of MI7 during the war were 13 officers and 25 paid writers, including Major Hugh Pollard, who spread this false story through the newspapers as a special correspondent for the Daily Express. Although the issue of whether medieval people thought the world was flat was actually covered by an article here: https://unherd.com/2019/11/the-myth-of-the-anti-science-middle-ages/Unfortunately, such cognitive bias doesn’t always end well. For instance, the Dunning-Kruger effect, when people with limited knowledge think they’re expert in something they don’t really understand.
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