{{Short description|Pretended but not actual 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.<ref>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, [https://books.google.com/books?id=U35PbM-x9WsC&dq=%22the+marshaling+and+twisting+of+apparent+research+to+suit+a+particular+political+line+or+agenda%22&pg=PA33 "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, [https://books.google.com/books?id=jHtC39Bm1AwC&dq=%22pseudo-scholarship%2C+that+is%2C+pronouncements+and+opinions+born+of+religious+faith+and+confessional+conviction+but+masquerading+as+%22&pg=PA285 "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</ref>
Examples of pseudo-scholarship include: {{div col}} *Pseudoarchaeology *Pseudohistory<ref>Marshall Fishwick, ''American Studies in Transition'' (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969) p. 265-266</ref> *Pseudolaw *Pseudolinguistics *Pseudomathematics *Pseudophilosophy *Pseudoscience<ref>Jeremy Bernstein, ''A Comprehensible World: On Modern Science and Its Origins'', 2nd ed. (New York: Random House, 1967) p. 193</ref> {{div col end}}
==See also== {{div col}} *Chaos magic *Conspiracy theory *Counterknowledge *Crackpot index *Crank (person) *Fallacy *Fringe science *Fringe theory *Irrelevant conclusion (''Ignoratio elenchi'') *Junk science *''Mathematical Cranks'' *Predatory journal *Proto-science {{div col end}}
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