Word: hoaxers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a Middle Eastern accent. The tipster stated that a man named Abdullah planned to pass a device to a female Finnish passenger, who would unwittingly transport it to Frankfurt, then onto a U.S.-bound craft. U.S. and Finnish authorities dismissed the message because the caller was a known hoaxer...
Stephen Jay Gould appears to accept the popular charge that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was involved in the conspiracy behind the Piltdown man forgery. Gould's accusation, however, has not been accepted by experts. J.S. Weiner, who first uncovered the hoax and then the hoaxer, dismissed Gould's account as worthless. British Scholar Kenneth Oakley, who originally supported Gould's contention that Teilhard faked the Piltdown fossil as part of a youthful prank, later changed his mind. After being shown evidence that contradicted Gould, Oakley declared that the basis of Gould's charge against Teilhard...
...answered. 'Yes, you did,' Woodward said." She wrote out her resignation and disappeared from the Post's payroll but not from its history. In Green's judgment, "the Post accelerated her success, and may have thereby hastened her failure." If Janet Cooke, talented writer, skillful hoaxer, has any writing future at 26, it should be in fiction, not journalism...