Word: hoaxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Revisionist historians deny the existence of "the Holocaust as a historical truth," Tribe said. And although he said the writers of the Frug parody had "a less clearly defined mission," the article's message is that "the hatred of women is a hoax perpetrated by feminists...
...Fulani campaign] is a political hoax," says Chip Berlet, who published a study on Fulani's New Alliance Party in 1987. "They're running to make money through federal matching funds and attract recruits...
...past is any indication, Kaplan's ability to sniff out the truth has not been infallible. Two years ago, the Star ran a story about the slide into homelessness of Peter Criss, the former drummer for the rock band Kiss. It turned out to be a hoax...
...After almost a minute of noise that might have been traffic or from an airport, a man was heard to mutter what sounds like the words "Help, Barbara" in the tone of someone perhaps drugged or in pain. To an outsider, the tape could easily seem like a cruel hoax. To Lowerison, it is a tormenting sign that her brother might be alive...
...increasingly bizarre explanations for those mysterious circles and lines pressed into the grain fields of southern England. Were they the landing sites of UFOs? No, the crop circles -- or at least some of them -- were the handiwork of a pair of elderly British landscape painters who engineered the elaborate hoax (with string and planks) "for a bit of a laugh...