Word: hoaxing
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...PUDDING produced A Thousand Clones each night for two months to mixed reviews, but when author David Rorvik announced in February that a child had been cloned in a laboratory, the response was immediate and deafening, raising questions involving scientific, journalistic, and human ethics. Scientists called the claim a hoax and demanded documentation, but none was forthcoming as Rorvik fell back, using a journalist's privilege to protect his sources. The publisher was criticized for publishing his book as non-fiction without being sure of its accuracy, and it responded by speeding up the printing of the book...
...warning was believed to be a hoax, but criminals nonetheless had good reason for wanting Moro found. Common crime in the capital has dropped 60%. Car thefts, which total as many as 150 a day in Rome, have declined dramatically. Police are recovering between 40 and 60 stolen autos a day: the thieves abandon them for fear of being caught at a roadblock...
...cruel hoax" to compare the plight of blacks in America today with the situation of European immigrant groups of the past, George D. Kelsey, professor emeritus of divinity at Drew University, said last night at the Science Center...
...Alexander Leaf, Harvard professor of clinical medicine, whose 1973 National Geographic article and 1975 book Youth in Old Age did much to advance the legend of Vilcabamba's oldsters, ruefully said that it was apparently all a hoax. Vilcabamba ("Sacred Valley" in the Inca tongue), it now appears, has no more senior citizens per capita than other Andean towns. In fact, the revelations of such gerontological high jinks are remarkably similar to earlier reports from Soviet scientists that some of their old folks may not be as ancient as they claim...
...There is a reasonable chance that it's a hoax," Beckwith said, but added that scientists may be able to perform successfully this procedure in the near future...