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
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
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
Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl WigginsForbidden Archeology by Michael A. CremoThe Wine Dark Sea, Homer's Epic of the North Atlantic by Henriette MertzThe Mystic Symbol by Henriette MertzTechnology of the Gods by David Hatcher Childress
Snarfeology
181 books — 5 voters

Love to Last a Lifetime by Susan MeachenOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyOne Soldier's War in Chechnya by Arkady BabchenkoJihad! by Tom CarewThe Confessions of Aleister Crowley by Aleister Crowley
Authors Who Faked Their Own Death
10 books — 6 voters
Three Cups of Deceit by Jon KrakauerThe Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by J.T. LeRoySarah by J.T. LeRoyBunk by Kevin YoungHarold's End by J.T. LeRoy
Hoaxes And Publicity Stunts
43 books — 8 voters


A.E. Samaan
There is not a single ecosystem in the Universe that is "sustainable". The planets are not "sustainable". Our solar system is sustained chaos. The best Humanity can do is learn to ride the waves of uncertainty. ...more
A.E. Samaan

...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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