Pseudohistory

Book Review: Children who remember previous lives, A question of reincarnation, Ian Stevenson

2002, Nov 1st | Category: New Age, Pseudohistory

This is a follow-up to the book review of Ian Stevenson’s book “Children Who Remember Previous Lives, A Question of Reincarnation”.



Book Review: The Bible Code, Michael Drosnin

2003, Jan 1st | Category: Myths & Mysteries, Pseudohistory

Michael Drosnin claims that space aliens wrote the Bible. In the Hebrew text, they embedded secret codes that can only be detected with modern computers. These codes allegedly predict today’s front-page news: the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy on Jupiter, the Oklahoma City bombing, earthquakes in Japan and Los Angeles, and a nuclear holocaust in the coming decade. And much, much more.



I started thinking, and I got carried away

2003, Aug 1st | Category: Cults, New Age, Pseudohistory, Pseudoscience, Religion

The tantalizing story of an ex-Scientologist, who broke his contract just shy of 999,999,975 years before it expired.



NASA fakes Moon landing

2003, Jan 1st | Category: Lighter Side of Darkness, Myths & Mysteries, Pseudohistory

Heroic images or NASA fraud? At last we have the conclusive proof!



New World Order, City Hall Square, Copenhagen

2009, Nov 15th | Category: Pseudohistory

Undoubtedly, the most popular myth today deals with the attack on September 11, 2001. The movement behind this conspiracy theory is called the “Truth”-movement, and its followers “Truthers”. Read about their celebration of the 8th anniversary of the attack.



Portrait of a woo-woo

2003, Jul 1st | Category: Medical Quackery, New Age, Pseudohistory, Pseudoscience

The nurse from hell, Jolene believes anything. Literally.



Son of “An Interesting Day” – conspiracy theory in disguise

2004, Jan 1st | Category: Myths & Mysteries, Pseudohistory

Conspiracy writings are dangerous because they not only spread misinformation (or outright lies), but they train readers to accept what information they take in without applying critical thought.



Sounding the alarm on the September 11 attacks

2002, Nov 1st | Category: Myths & Mysteries, Pseudohistory

Many may think of conspiracy theorists as being harmless kooks, but historically they have done serious damage.



The 10 Commandments Are Everything The United States Are Not

2002, Nov 1st | Category: Myths & Mysteries, Pseudohistory, Religion

Is American law based upon the 10 Commandments?



The apparent belief system of Ian Stevenson

2002, Oct 1st | Category: New Age, Pseudohistory

Some of the perhaps best cases for reincarnation are investigated. How do they hold up to reality?



The Beautiful People?

2002, Nov 1st | Category: Myths & Mysteries, New Age, Pseudohistory

The Beautiful People myth is one of the scourges of serious historical study today, even though it is rarely asserted by real historians.



The origins of Germania – Dream and nightmare

2005, Jun 1st | Category: Myths & Mysteries, Pseudohistory

Nazi ideology was imbued with the notion of a Great Germania, where was only room for people with pure German blood. This article explains how pseudohistory and pseudoscience can pave the way for terror and genocide.



The prophet of the space-gods

2004, Aug 10th | Category: Myths & Mysteries, Pseudohistory, UFOs

30 million books by the Swiss-born writer Erich von Däniken has been printed globally, in 35 different languages. All over the world, he has become famously controversional for his two claims, that go against all scientific dogma: One claim is that Earth in ancient times have been visited by creatures from space, and the the other that these non-human guests have programmed humanity, as if we were biological computers.



The Pufedorf Hoax

2007, Mar 1st | Category: Myths & Mysteries, Pseudohistory

An unsolved double-murder, clandestine missions, secret organizations, four Presidents, nuclear warheads for Nazi rockets, Queen Elizabeth II, guerilla tactics, executions, fake executions, Yassir Arafat, the Congressional Medal of Honor, a German retirement home, an Argentinian travel agent, anagrams, a sunken ship, shady figures from the Underworld, fraud, lies, hoaxes, humbug – and two very strange people.



The racial teachings of Rudolf Steiner

2005, Jun 1st | Category: Myths & Mysteries, New Age, Pseudohistory, Pseudoscience

Anthroposophs have long rejected the accusations of racist origins in Anthroposophy – there simply are no racist skeletons in the closet. This article will investigate just what the inventor of Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner actually said about human races.



The Roots of Nazism

2005, Nov 1st | Category: Myths & Mysteries, Pseudohistory

Some have claimed that the so-called Germanenorder and its cover organization Thule-Gesellschaft were the cradle of Nazism. This article explores the beginnings of the Nazi movement.



The Theft of the Millenium

2010, Mar 10th | Category: Pseudohistory

This is a review of the book by Florin Diacu “The Lost Millenium. History Timetables Under Siege” presenting a review of the outrageous theory on world history of Russian mathematician Anatoly Fomenko.



The whole silly Flood story

2002, Oct 1st | Category: Creationism, Pseudohistory, Religion

If you believe in the Biblical Flood, there is a couple of things you should consider. Quite a lot, actually…



Things Creationists hate

2002, Oct 1st | Category: Creationism, Pseudohistory, Religion

Believing in Creationism does present a few problems. Here is a “handful”.



Those naughty vestigial bits and other bad engineering

2002, Oct 1st | Category: Creationism, Pseudohistory, Religion

God’s design of Nature turns out to be less-than-perfect. In fact, it seems there is no end to the examples of just how poor a job he did.



Was the First Queen of Denmark a man?

2002, Nov 1st | Category: Pseudohistory

Can the viking ships be older than the egyptian pyramids? Only if you are very creative with your data, and are prepared to accept some supreme silliness.