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

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Monthly magazine and British register, Volume 55 (February 1823), p. 449, in reference to John Galt, Ringan Gilhaize: Or, The Covenanters, Oliver & Boyd, 1823. [1] In a 2011 review of the state of modern scholarship, Bart Ehrman (a secular agnostic) wrote: "He certainly existed, as virtually every competent scholar of antiquity, Christian or non-Christian, agrees" B. Ehrman, 2011 Forged: writing in the name of God ISBN 978-0-06-207863-6. p. 285 It might be no shame to fall victim to fallax, but some people in thrall to one mumpsimus or another could well be the “sequacious” type in general: from 1653, an adjective for an unquestioning acolyte, a slavish adherent of some person or school of thought. It is derived from the Latin sequāx, a follower, and can also be used of biddable beasts, or tractable objects, though its psychological meaning seems still the most relevant. The poet and playwright James Thomson defined a philosopher as one opposed to the sequacious multitude in his “Summer: A Poem” (1730): “The vulgar stare; amazement is their joy, / And mystic faith, a fond sequacious herd! / But scrutinous Philosophy looks deep, / With piercing eye, into the latent cause; / Nor can she swallow what she does not see.”

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

In 1957, the BBC show Panorama broadcast a programme about the spaghetti tree in Switzerland. It showed a family harvesting pasta that hung from the branches of the tree. In 1996, American physicist Alan Sokal submitted a paper loaded with nonsensical jargon to the journal Social Text, in which he argued that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct. ( Read Sokal’s paper)Although historians and archaeologists consider the Book of Mormon to be an anachronistic invention of Joseph Smith, many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) believe that it describes ancient historical events in the Americas. Computer vision is an intricate field primarily concerned with image and video processing-giving computers the ability to understand information from images and videos. There are already common, popular applications for computer vision technologies, things like autonomous vehicles that use computer vision to analyze road paths and obstructions, medical systems that use computer vision to diagnose patients, and of course, facial recognition used by Facebook to suggest photo tags. Computer vision is the academic umbrella that deepfakes falls under and its continued development have made deepfakes popular and more accessible.

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A Tyrannosaurus rex at the Field Museum Chicago Illinois. The skeleton is an original but the skull shown here is a cast as it is too heavy to mount without risking damge. The original fossil head sits in a case below. Photograph: Alamy The Iğdır Genocide Memorial and Museum in Turkey promotes the false narrative that Armenians committed genocide against Turks, rather than vice versa. [2] While focusing primarily on threats to the integrity of academic rationality, Fritze also touches upon the cultural consequences of false beliefs. Unscrupulous profit, foremost (pp. 8–10, 16, 61, 98–103, 179, 183, 202–3, 210, 219–20). Power, too. Fun, amusement and entertainment, perhaps ( Da Vinci Code, Indiana Jones, etc.) – but apparently unjustifiably given the lies. Add mass suicides, racist serial killings and civil war, and you have quite a spectre. Yet the causal power or role of the historical claims is usually overstated. The history typically seems to rationalize other, deeper motives, such as in-group identity, out-group blame or political power. 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult died in 1997 believing they were the privileged team to board a spaceship that had arrived to annihilate Earth. But their motives were surely more about belonging to something larger than themselves than adhering to some alien apocalyptic tale. One can find flaws in the Nation of Islam's historical claims, too. But as Fritze notes, members also found personal stability and purpose, adopting a healthy and abstemious diet, while refraining from alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, promiscuity, adultery, prostitution and gambling. One may ask about the scale of harm in some subsidiary details of a derived false history (which surely had little to do with promoting racist or religious behavior) compared with such benefits. Fritze implies that if pseudohistory, etc., were remedied by rational (factual and methodologically correct) thinking, we would forestall racism, anti-Semitism, religious cults, capitalistic exploitation, etc. This causal connection is, of course, far from established. 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 ] 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.

Even this beautifully preserved dinosaur has some ribs and toes missing. If mounted for display, these might have to be sculpted to replace the missing parts but we do understand what they should look like from this and other specimens of close relatives. Photograph: Junchang Lu/University of Edinbu/PA

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a b Lipstadt, Deborah E. (1994). Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. New York City, New York: Plume. p. 215. ISBN 0-452-27274-2.

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Harvey, Paul (10 May 2011). "Selling the Idea of a Christian Nation: David Barton's Alternate Intellectual Universe". Religion Dispatches . Retrieved April 9, 2013. The prices continued to fluctuate with supply and demand andthe cost of eggs continued to rise steadily in the years following the 1916 boycotts. 9. World War One Fake News

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Laura Miller (2006). Dan Burstein (ed.). Secrets of the Code. Vanguard Press. p. 405. ISBN 978-1-59315-273-4. If you look at the American flag in still pictures from the Apollo 11 mission, it appears to be flapping in the wind. But how can that be, since there’s no wind on the moon? Regal, Brian (2019). "Everything Means Something in Viking". Skeptical Inquirer. Vol.43, no.6. Center for Inquiry. pp.44–47. John Dillinger, in case you need a refresher, was a gangster who gained infamy in the 1930s for robbing banks and also for being handsome. The punchline of Dillinger's story is that he was taken down by the FBI and then buried under 3 feet of concrete, and ever since there are people who say it wasn't really John Dillinger who got shot by the FBI that night, hence all the concrete.Some societies are matrilineal or matrifocal but in fact have patriarchal power structures, which may be misidentified as matriarchal.