Open Directory - Society: Activism: Media: Culture Jamming: Hoaxes

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Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia: News Trolls - Planting fictional and absurd content in the news media
Eat Babies - Supports the "stereotypical attack on an opposing political party or group" by providing recipes and advice.
First Human Male Pregnancy, The - "Mr. Lee Mingwei will be the first human male to ever birth a baby from his own body." Art project by Virgil Wong, thematizing gender roles, childbearing, and reproductive technology.
GenoChoice - "Create Your Own Genetically Healthy Child Online! It's the Best of Nature...Before You Nurture!" A make-believe genetics company selling the perfect offspring.
Joey Skaggs - Since 1966, Skaggs has hoaxed media outlets around the world with pranks like The Celebrity Sperm Bank, Cockroach Vitamin Pills and Dog Meat Soup.
People for Ethical Evolutionary Practices - BioPEEP, a group of scientists distributing a genetic virus in consumable products to create product junkies, is "exposed" in this media hoax.

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1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast - WAV files of the famous Orson Welles narrating The Mercury Theatre On-The-Air radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds.
April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes - National Geographic News has compiled a listing of some of the greatest hoaxes in history.
Art and UFO - A study about the alleged UFOs in Renaissance paintings. The "strange flying objects" someone find in ancient art are only sacred art symbols, not UFOs.
Bibliography of Hoaxes - Bibliography of books about hoaxes.
Camel Spiders Myth - Pictures and information provide facts to debunk wild internet rumors about this spider.
Cassiopaea - Bogdanovs affaire: Or, Has Physics been bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? Discussion and correspondence.
Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of Hoaxes - Discusses a number of scientific and medical hoaxes, including Mary Toft and the Rabbit Babies (about which he authored a book). Includes links and images.
Cottingley Fairies Hoax - The story and photos of the nonexistent Cottingley fairies.
History Buff : "Hoaxes in Journalism" Articles - Offers six articles on hoaxes, including petrification hoaxes and the day they almost sawed off Manhattan.
MIT IHTFP Hack Gallery - The MIT Gallery of Hacks (Interesting Hacks To Fascinate People). Hoaxes and pranks perpetrated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mothman Death List - Loren Coleman links certain dates, disasters and deaths from 1966 to the present time to the Mothman Curse. Also provides information on cryptozoology and discusses some unknown creatures encountered around the world.
Museum of Hoaxes - Extensive collection of history's most famous hoaxes and April Fool's pranks. Listed by date and category. Includes bibliographic references.
Piltdown Man - Piltdown man was one of the most famous hoaxes in science. Covers the history of the hoax, its reception by the paleontological community, how the hoax was executed, its exposure, myths and misconceptions, and theories about the perpetrator.
Piltdown Plot - Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history.
SCIgen - An Automatic Computer Science Paper Generator - SCIgen is a program that generates random computer science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Generated papers are meant for amusement.
Skeptic's Dictionary: Frauds and Hoaxes - Discussion of 22 hoaxes, including Cardiff Giant, crop circles, and the Philadelphia Experiment
Spud Server - The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC.
The Hoax Files - Assorted collection of hoaxes, including sports hoaxes and art forgeries
The Jackalope Conspiracy - Hoax site contains user submitted sightings, doctored images, and related humour.
Tracking the White Salamander - Online Book telling the story of Mark Hoffman who forged Mormon documents and was convicted of murder

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