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The Museum of Hoaxes (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.42 — 322 ratings — published 2002
The Fairy Ring (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 1,067 ratings — published 2012
The Giant and How He Humbugged America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 328 ratings — published 2012
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade (ebook)
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avg rating 3.66 — 26,611 ratings — published 2014
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,268 ratings — published 1997
A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes, and Frauds (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 795 ratings — published 2005
The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 2,954 ratings — published 2021
Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 694 ratings — published 2018
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 547 ratings — published 2008
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 5,125 ratings — published 1841
Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 722 ratings — published 1999
The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 3,181 ratings — published 2012
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 5,259 ratings — published 2011
Bad Astronomy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 5,790 ratings — published 2002
The Ern Malley Affair (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 66 ratings — published 2003
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 81,712 ratings — published 1995
The Great Pretenders: The True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 169 ratings — published 2004
Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.54 — 571 ratings — published 2006
The Daily Comet: Boy Saves Earth from Giant Octopus! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoaxes)
avg rating 3.37 — 76 ratings — published 2010
The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoaxes)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,766 ratings — published 2021
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 294,280 ratings — published 1971
Conspiracy Theory: The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book)
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avg rating 3.97 — 215 ratings — published 2024
Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 4,092 ratings — published 2020
The Miranda Obsession (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.34 — 44 ratings — published 2011
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.18 — 1,091 ratings — published 2017
Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.24 — 4,413 ratings — published 2008
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 91,166 ratings — published 1973
Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA's Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoaxes)
avg rating 4.17 — 138 ratings — published 2014
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 291 ratings — published 1948
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.04 — 39,104 ratings — published 2019
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 2,032 ratings — published 2014
Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 189 ratings — published 2014
Before the Deluge (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.54 — 13 ratings — published 1965
Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.37 — 203 ratings — published 2010
Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.32 — 1,244 ratings — published 2021
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 38,859 ratings — published 2018
Linguistic Fingerprints: How Language Creates and Reveals Identity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 20 ratings — published
Famous Impostors (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.40 — 103 ratings — published 1910
The Amok Sourcebook: The Extremes of Information in Print (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 408 ratings — published 2009
Beardmore: The Viking Hoax That Rewrote History (Carleton Library Series, 246) (Volume 246)
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avg rating 4.00 — 15 ratings — published 2018
With intent to deceive: Frauds famous and infamous, (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hoaxes)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,798 ratings — published 2022
Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.33 — 24 ratings — published 1996
Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 231 ratings — published 2008
The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 68 ratings — published 2000
The Spectacle of Illusion: Magic, the paranormal & the complicity of the mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hoaxes)
avg rating 4.21 — 66 ratings — published 2019
Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT Leroy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.16 — 455 ratings — published 2008
“An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.”
― Feared Intellectualism
― Feared Intellectualism
“As for the claims by the Congolese historian Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem (“13 million killed” in 1998, then “5 to 10 million killed” in 2008), they are hard to keep track of. Initially, the starting year for his assertions was 1880 (five years before the EIC was founded and ten years before any rubber harvesting) while the latter estimate extended the end year to 1930 (22 years after the EIC). A second edition of the latter estimate, without explanation, moved up the starting date to 1885. Ndaywel cites no data or methods. All three editions of his book merely cite Moulin. It is notable that in a lengthy essay on the EIC published in L’Histoire in 2020, Ndaywel no longer makes any specific population claims, asserting only that the effects of the EIC were “worse than grim” (“plus que macabres”). In the end, Ndaywel is not credible. His works are published by the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium because he is black. This helps them to “decolonize Eurocentric narratives,” which means using blacks as shadow puppets to shield their radical accounts from criticism.”
― The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind
― The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind
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