These days, when we hear about "scientific hoaxes," we generally think of times when groundbreaking research has been ... throughout history, scientific hoaxes have been engineered to do ...

Historical hoaxes are easier to spread than ever ... but not bad for an undergraduate’s blog about her research project. The YouTube videos got more than a hundred views each.

I believed that if my students went to the trouble of creating an elaborate historical hoax, they would learn ... when it was time to do their own research. I’ve taught the course twice now ...

BERKELEY — After 11 years of research, a group of California historians announced Tuesday they have unraveled one of the most bedeviling hoaxes in recent American history, answering the question ...

But in a new book Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists ... who is the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem and also the new poetry editor of the ...

During his research, Boese noticed startling similarities between the number of hoaxes at the turn of both the 19th and 20th centuries. He began posting some of the stories on a website he created ...

Yet, the grander hoaxes of earlier days always fascinated me. For many years, I dreamed of assembling the greatest natural history forgeries for an exhibition. The dream became a reality with ...

Historical hoaxes are easier to spread than ever ... but not bad for an undergraduate’s blog about her research project. The YouTube videos got more than a hundred views each.