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
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

Look Out, It's April Fools' Day by Frank ModellApril fool by Mary Blount ChristianApril Fool's Day by Bryce CourtenayFools Rush In by Celia KennedyAddison the April Fool's Day Fairy by Daisy Meadows
April Fool's Day
57 books — 1 voter
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



Benito Mussolini
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" <-- This is a fake quote, it appears in none of the writings or recorded speeches of Mussolini. ― Benito Mussolini ...more
Benito Mussolini

One of the most effective ways to empower a group is to help them get finance. Yes, money. Whether it be women, minority groups etc. Without economic independence, freedom is a hoax
Magnus Nwagu Amudi

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