Search The Directory The Web for Home > Science > Science in Society > Skeptical Inquiry > Hoaxes New! Submit a site   Categories: Lunar Landing (27)       whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast - Wavs of the famous Orson Welles & The Mercury Theatre On-The-Air radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds   Bibliography of Hoaxes - Bibliography of books about hoaxes.   CSICOP:Strange Hoaxes That Endure - Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: article that discusses 10 hoaxes, including the Roswell Incident, Cottingley Fairies, Amityville Horror, and psychic surgery.   Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of Hoaxes - 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.   Eric's history of Perpetual Motion and Free Energy Machines - In-depth historical timeline of people who have promised free energy or perpetual motion. Includes links.   Great Hoaxes - Mysteries of History - U.S. News article that discusses a number of hoaxes including: The Cardiff Giant, Piltdown Man, Tasadays, Newark Holy Stones, crop circles, fairy photos, Kirlian photos, etc.   History Buff : "Hoaxes in Journalism" Articles - Part of Discovery.com. Offers six articles on hoaxes, including petrification hoaxes and the day they sawed off manhattan.   Idiosyntactix Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia - Extensive list of hoaxes, with links.   James Randi Educational Foundation - Magician and skeptic James Randi debunks psychics, medical frauds, televangelists, and others. Offers a million dollar reward for proof of occult, psychic or supernatural powers.   Joey Skaggs - Homepage of Joey Skaggs: hoaxer, socio-political satirist, media activist, culture jammer, etc. Includes an interesting retrospective of his many hoaxes.   MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery - The MIT Gallery of Hacks (Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People). Hoaxes and pranks perpetrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.   Meet Mark Hoffman - A document forger-turned-assassin, Mark Hoffman's knack for "finding" Mormon historical documents and then selling them to the church resulted in scandal and murder.   Museum of Hoaxes - Extensive collection of history's most famous hoaxes and April Fool's pranks. Listed by date and category. Includes bibliographic references.   Net Hoax Hall of Fame - C|Net lampoons net pranksters and gullible netizens.   P.N.E.C. Nuke Plant Hoax Site - Details the hoax pulled on the media in Portland, Oregon, claiming a nuclear plant was going to be built on a federal wetland in Astoria, Oregon. Newsprint stories are listed here as well as links to media outlets that got conned.   Piltdown Plot - Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history.   Pseudoscience - Scientific hoaxes, such as radionics, laundry balls, mesmerism, cold fusion, and flat earth theories.   Skeptic's Dictionary: Frauds and Hoaxes - Discussion of 22 hoaxes, including Cardiff Giant, crop circles, and the Philadelphia Experiment   Spud Server - The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC.   The American Association of Hoaxed Anomalies - Dedicated to purging the paranormal industrial complex of hoaxes and frauds.     [ 1 2 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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