Hoaxes

A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth. It is distinguishable from errors in observation or judgment, rumors, urban legends, pseudosciences, and April Fools' Day events that are passed along in good faith by believers or as jokes. ...more

The Museum of Hoaxes
The Fairy Ring
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes, and Frauds
The Giant and How He Humbugged America
The Songs of Bilitis
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York
Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth
Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan
Collected Poems
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders
It Came From the Sky
Fakes!? Hoaxes, Counterfeits and Deception in Early Modern Sc... by Marco BerettaMountebanks and Medicasters by Piero GambacciniBad Blood by John CarreyrouPain Killer by Barry MeierTalking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
•Uptown Suckers
172 books — 5 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldDeath, Taxes, and Turduckens by Jens Kurt HeyckeThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchThe Dirty Version by Medina FarisThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Con Men, Gamblers and Hustlers
330 books — 167 voters
The Cottingley Secret by Hazel GaynorThe Cottingley Fairies by Ana SenderThe Coming of the Fairies by Arthur Conan DoyleCottingley by Alison LittlewoodThe Cottingley Cuckoo by A.J. Elwood
Cottingley Fairies
14 books — 10 voters


What is the number one cause of death in the United States? It's not high cholesterol or accidents by cars, planes or trains. It's not wars. It's not drug addiction, and it's not even disease, so that lets out heart disease, cancer, strokes, diabetes and more. In Third World countries, infections and malnutrition are major causes of loss of life. But in the United States the number one cause of death is not any of these things. IT IS PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (Null, TW). ...more
Dr. Sherry Rogers

Nicholas Meyer
There will always be a war between light and darkness, between science and superstition, between education and ignorance. Ignorance is easier. It requires no study. Faith is the enemy of thought.
Nicholas Meyer, The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols: Adapted from the Journals of John H. Watson, M.D.

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