Word: hoaxing
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Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology Stephen Williams, who teaches Anthropology 139, "Fantastic Archaeology: Where the Truth Lies," promises to make his students more skeptical. Williams says he will teach students how to tell a hoax from genuine findings during their studies of Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster...
...Global warming. Every respected scientist in the nation agrees that global warming is a real phenomenon. Specialists argue over the amount of warming, but no one contends that the greenhouse effect is a hoax--no one, that is, except America's leading armchair environmentalist, White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu...
Twenty years ago, Nikita Khrushchev, a nonperson living under virtual house arrest in a dacha outside Moscow, created an international sensation when the first volume of his memoirs was published by Little, Brown & Co. The Soviet authorities denounced Khrushchev Remembers as a CIA hoax. A number of Western experts suspected the KGB. In 1974, after Khrushchev's death, a second volume was published. By then the controversy had died down, but curiosity lingered about the author's motivation and method...
...week the Revolutionary Justice Organization, which has three hostages, vowed, "There is no intention to release hostages." Meanwhile, it was disclosed that last month President Bush accepted a phone call from an impostor claiming to be Rafsanjani. Though they do not know for sure, White House officials think the hoax was perhaps perpetrated by Mohtashami's faction to embarrass Rafsanjani...
...apologize for the suspicions that had been focused on her son. Flynn devoted half of his 22-minute State of the City address last week to what he called "a giant fraud on this city." Said he: "It turned out that we were all victims of a sinister hoax . . . especially the residents of the good Mission Hill community...