Pseudo-scholarship

Pseudo-scholarship (from pseudo- and scholarship) is a term used to describe work (e.g., a publication or 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.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

Examples of pseudo-scholarship include:

Pseudoarchaeology PseudohistoryMarshall Fishwick, American Studies in Transition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969) p. 265-266 Pseudolaw Pseudolinguistics Pseudomathematics Pseudophilosophy PseudoscienceJeremy Bernstein, A Comprehensible World: On Modern Science and Its Origins, 2nd ed. (New York: Random House, 1967) p. 193

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