Word: hoaxing
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...minimum wage, another hoax, but marvelously sold. More hands-free compassion...
...acquitted of obscenity charges), raving that they "had captured the entire essence of our 1994 campaign in a single line: 'To create, you must destroy.'" The band's promoters used the letters to help publicize its new album. Last week Gingrich's office claimed the letters were a hoax, despite being on the Speaker's stationery, complete with signature, gold seal and watermark. Band member Jay Blumenfield believes the letters are authentic. Still, he says, "it's becoming more and more sinister...
...chameleon-like adaptation of institutional religion to both secularation and commodification" may foreshadow a world where politics and religion are inseparable, Lawrence said in his lecture, "Global Religion(s): Hope or Hoax of the 20th Century...
...panic over hoaxes. Remember that viruses can only be sent through software, and that you can't get viruses just by reading e-mail. If you get a hoax e-mail, let the sender know that they're passing on false rumors--or at the very least, don't pass the rumor...
What it comes down to, it seems, is faith, a giving oneself up to the excitement and the possibilities of space exploration. If it's all a hoax--if the pictures aren't real, if the stories are manufactured--it doesn't matter all that much anyway. After all, most of us will never go into space anyway. So let's succumb to disbelief and enjoy the show...