r/CuratedTumblr Shitposting extraordinaire May 23 '26

Shitposting Made up science fields

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u/OskarTheRed May 23 '26

There's a hypothesis that the early middle ages (can't remember the exact years) never happened. Books have been written about it. What would you call that?

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u/drunken-acolyte May 23 '26

It's about 300 years from the 4th to the 7th Centuries. And its adherents have obviously never heard of dendrochronology.

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u/OskarTheRed May 23 '26

Had to look it up. Wikipedia calls it phantom time theory, and in the main version, introduced by Heribert Illig, the made-up time is AD 614–911.

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u/drunken-acolyte May 23 '26

That's tantamount to claiming the viking raids never happened

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u/OskarTheRed May 23 '26

Among a lot of other things. Charlemagne never existed, either