Word: hoax
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...guided the interceptor rocket toward a set-up collision. Officials involved with the test have vigorously defended the test results. Said General Eugene Fox, the retired Army missile- defense chief: "We didn't gimmick anything." William Inglis, the experiment's civilian test director, dismissed the accusations of an SDI hoax as "technical nonsense." There was indeed a beacon, but, said Inglis, it served only for "range safety" purposes, allowing ground crews to destroy the ICBM if it went off course...
CREDIT: [TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: Information Resources Inc.}]CAPTION: The Hoax Effect...
...member of the Skeptics Society, an organization devoted to investigating pseudo science, Larue had been interviewed for an earlier Sun International production and, after seeing that show, felt he had been set up as a straw man. It inspired him to coach George Jammal, an acquaintance, to perpetrate the hoax, intended to expose the shoddy research of Sun International. "Carbon-14 testing would have revealed that the wood was a modern forgery," says Larue...
...course, many people suspected all along that Clinton was a closet liberal, and that the New Democrat rhetoric would fade after January 20. These cynical liberals were complicit in the hoax because they forgave Clinton for saying whatever it took to be elected. Their suspicions have been vindicated--Clinton's liberalism has not taken long to emerge. But liberals remain unsatisfied because Clinton has failed to adequately compensate them for their complicity by fulfilling all of his campaign promises in his first hundred days...
...recent experiences have brought home to me the still secret lesson that, in the age of high technology, freedom is fast 'becoming a memory; the right to privacy, a cruel hoax on average saps who just don't know any better...