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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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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
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

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
Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. AbagnaleThe Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark SealCan You Ever Forgive Me? by Lee IsraelBad Blood by John CarreyrouBunk by Kevin Young
Real life hoaxes, frauds, schemes, and imposters
47 books — 16 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
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


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Philosophy
Deception
Lies
Conspiracy Theories
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Pseudoscience
Déception
Pseudohistory
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Phílosophy

Quotes Tagged “Hoaxes”

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
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Nancy Rubin Stuart
“ Maggie and Katy found themselves trapped. 'Soon it went so far and so many persons had heard the 'rappings' that we could not confess the wrong without exciting very great anger on the part of the those we had deceived So we went right on," Maggie would explain forty years later. ...more ”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox
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Deception in Plain Sight
Deception in Plain Sight

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