What is "pseudo-scholarship"

n. 1 (context uncountable English) Any body of publications purported to be scholarly or supported by critical scholarship but which fails to comply with scholarly standards 2 (context countable English) An arrangement that in effect grants a scholarship to a student, without being considered on a par with a real or standard scholarship

Pseudo-scholarship (from pseudo- + scholarship) is a work (e.g., publication, lecture) or 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
• Pseudohistory
• Pseudolinguistics
• Pseudomathematics
• Pseudophilosophy
• Pseudoscience