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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

Hoaxes Books

The Museum of Hoaxes
The Fairy Ring
A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes, and Frauds
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
The Coming of the Fairies
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
The Giant and How He Humbugged America
Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
Martian Ghost Centaur
It Came From the Sky
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor
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
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Lists

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
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchThe Dirty Version by Medina FarisThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainCatch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale
Con Men, Gamblers and Hustlers
327 books — 143 voters

Go Ask Alice by Beatrice SparksA Million Little Pieces by James FreySurviving With Wolves by Misha DefonsecaJay's Journal by Beatrice SparksThe Hand That Signed the Paper by Helen Dale
Fake Autobiographies
39 books — 23 voters
Bad Blood by John CarreyrouPlaying Dead by Elizabeth GreenwoodThe Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLeanThe Big Short by Michael LewisThe Spider Network by David Enrich
Scams, Scandals and Frauds
180 books — 19 voters

Bad Science by Ben GoldacreThe Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience by Michael ShermerWeird Weapons of World War II by Christopher MiddletonScreams of Reason by David J. SkalThe Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
Weird Science, Mad Science and Bad Science in Non-Fiction
100 books — 1 voter
Dreadful California by Lucius BeebeThe Bank of America of Louisiana by Jim MorrisonSmith and Schmidt in Africa, Hottentot Blue-Book by C.M. SeyppelFeodor Vladimir Larrovitch - An Appreciation of His Life and ... by William George JordanBilltry by Mary Kyle Dallas
Super Cherries
100 books — 1 voter


Related Genres

Philosophy
Deception
Lies
Conspiracy Theories
Cryptozoology
Pseudoscience
Déception
Pseudohistory
Pseudomedicine
Phílosophy

Quotes Tagged “Hoaxes”

“ ...the true assassin of a viral lie is not rigorous fact-checking. It is, ultimately, fatigue. ”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India
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Steven Magee
“ If you think that climate change and global warming are hoaxes, then you are easily fooled. ”
― Steven Magee
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Videos Tagged “Hoaxes”

Deception in Plain Sight
Deception in Plain Sight

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