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This forum is for the discussion of scientific hoaxes and the motives surrounding them.

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• 1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast

  http://www.earthstation1.com/wotw.html
  WAV files of the famous Orson Welles narrating The Mercury Theatre On-The-Air radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds.

• April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes

  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0331_030401_aprilfool.html
  National Geographic News has compiled a listing of some of the greatest hoaxes in history.

• Art and UFO

  http://www.sprezzatura.it/Arte/Arte_UFO.htm
  A study about the alleged UFOs in Renaissance paintings. The "strange flying objects" someone find in ancient art are only sacred art symbols, not UFOs.

• Bibliography of Hoaxes

  http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/hoaxbib.htm
  Bibliography of books about hoaxes.

• Camel Spiders Myth

  http://www.camelspiders.net/
  Pictures and information provide facts to debunk wild internet rumors about this spider.

• Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of Hoaxes

  http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/hoax.html
  Discusses a number of scientific and medical hoaxes, including Mary Toft and the Rabbit Babies (about which he authored a book). Includes links and images.

• Cottingley Fairies Hoax

  http://www.cottingleyconnect.org.uk/fairies.shtml
  The story and photos of the nonexistent Cottingley fairies.

• MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery

  http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks
  The MIT Gallery of Hacks (Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People). Hoaxes and pranks perpetrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• Mothman Death List

  http://www.lorencoleman.com/mothman_death_list.html
  Loren Coleman links certain dates, disasters and deaths from 1966 to the present time to the Mothman Curse. Also provides information on cryptozoology and discusses some unknown creatures encountered around the world.

• Museum of Hoaxes

  http://hoaxes.org/
  Extensive collection of history's most famous hoaxes and April Fool's pranks. Listed by date and category. Includes bibliographic references.

• Piltdown Plot

  http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/pp_map.html
  Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history.

• Quantum Future Physics

  http://quantumfuture.net/quantum_future/bogdanovs.htm
  Bogdanovs affaire: Or, Has Physics been bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? Discussion and correspondence.

• SCIgen - An Automatic Computer Science Paper Generator

  http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
  SCIgen is a program that generates random computer science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Generated papers are meant for amusement.

• Skeptic's Dictionary: Frauds and Hoaxes

  http://skepdic.com/tifraud.html
  Discussion of 22 hoaxes, including Cardiff Giant, crop circles, and the Philadelphia Experiment

• Spud Server

  http://totl.net/Spud
  The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC.

• The Hoax Files

  http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hoax1.html
  Assorted collection of hoaxes, including sports hoaxes and art forgeries

• The Jackalope Conspiracy

  http://www.sudftw.com/jackcon.htm
  Hoax site contains user submitted sightings, doctored images, and related humour.

• Tracking the White Salamander

  http://www.utlm.org/onlinebooks/trackingcontents.htm
  Online Book telling the story of Mark Hoffman who forged Mormon documents and was convicted of murder

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