Word: hoax
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Proposition 2 1/2, given a slight edge to win in recent polls, "is the cruelest hoax every played" on Bay State voters, City Councilor David Wylie, who asked for the special session, told his colleagues...
...university discovered the hoax after several women turned the forms in directly to the health center. The officials reportedly suspect that upperclassmen circulated the questionnaires...
...masterminded the hoax? Dawson was suspected, but some scholars doubt that he had the skills or materials to carry it out. In Natural History, Harvard Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould writes that the young Teilhard, then a student in England and Dawson's friend, could easily have supplied some bones. One bit of evidence: a Teilhard letter written years later to the British scholar Kenneth Oakley, in which the priest commits what Gould calls a "fatal error." Teilhard says that Dawson personally brought him to the site where the second skull was found. "This cannot be," says Gould, because Dawson...
...students (and teachers too) was expanding tremendously as a result of the maturing crop of post-World War II babies. In the decade before 1969, the number of high school teachers almost doubled, from 575,000 to nearly 1 million. Writes Reading Expert Paul Copperman in The Literacy Hoax: "The stage was set for an academic tragedy of historic proportions as the nation's high school faculty, about half of whom were young and immature, prepared to meet the largest generation of high school students in American history." To compound the problem, many teachers had been radicalized...
...This hoax should be headed off. However, nobody wants to blow the whistle because that has political consequences to the whistle blower. I'm fearful of the consequences for the political system...