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2. James Randi Educational Foundation
Magician and skeptic James Randi debunks psychics, medical frauds, televangelists, and others. Offers a million dollar reward for proof of occult, psychic or supernatural powers
http://www.randi.org/ - 19-07-2000
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Rating: [7.00] Votes: [604]
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3. Joey Skaggs
Homepage of Joey Skaggs: hoaxer, socio-political satirist, media activist, and culture jammer. Includes an interesting retrospective of his many hoaxes.
http://www.hoaxes.com - 02-04-2003
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Rating: [6.00] Votes: [397]
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4. 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
http://home.tiac.net/~cri_a/piltdown/piltdown.html - 29-08-2002
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Rating: [6.00] Votes: [1066]
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5. Piltdown Plot
Explores one of the most famous scientific hoaxes in history.
http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/pp_map.html - 28-02-2001
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Rating: [6.00] Votes: [1303]
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6. Cassiopaea
Bogdanovs affaire: Or, Has Physics been bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? Discussion and correspondence.
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/bogdanovs.htm - 23-08-2002
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Rating: [5.00] Votes: [1172]
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7. CSICOP:Strange Hoaxes That Endure
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal: article that discusses 10 hoaxes, including the Roswell Incident, Cottingley Fa
http://www.csicop.org/articles/april_fools_1998/ - 11-02-2000
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Rating: [5.00] Votes: [23]
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9. Pseudoscience
Scientific hoaxes, such as radionics, laundry balls, mesmerism, cold fusion, and flat earth theories.
http://www.syntac.net/hoax/science.php - 11-12-2002
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Rating: [5.00] Votes: [1754]
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10. Spud Server
The potato powered web server hoax that fooled USA Today and the BBC.
http://totl.net/Spud - 22-04-2000
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Rating: [5.00] Votes: [575]
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