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'''Hoax'''
'''Hoax'''
* noun: a deliberate deception, for humor or mal (bad) intent
* noun: a deliberate deception, for humor or mal (bad) intent
* verb: to deceive deliberately
* verb: to deceive deliberately


This page is a list of famous hoaxes
This page is a list of famous hoaxes
See also
** http://hoaxes.org


== Academic hoaxes ==
== Academic hoaxes ==
== General hoaxes ==
== Historical hoaxes ==


=== Sokal Affair ===
=== Sokal Affair ===
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** he objective was to satirize post-modernist theories in the social sciences
** he objective was to satirize post-modernist theories in the social sciences
* link to his paper: [https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity (nyu.edu)]
* link to his paper: [https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity (nyu.edu)]
* see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
* see:  
** https://www.school4schools.com/wiki/index.php?title=Literary_Analysis_and_Criticism#Sokal_affair
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
 
== April Fools hoaxes and pranks ==
* for list of pranks, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_April_Fools%27_Day_jokes
 
== General hoaxes ==
 
== Geographic hoaxes ==
=== April's Fool volcano prank ===
* on April 1, 1974, pranksters climbed atop the dormant 3002 ft high  volcano, Mt. Edgecumbe, near Sitka, Alaska
* a helicopter had dropped off old tires, kerosene, smoke bombs and rags, which the pranksters lit and threw into the crater
* a Coast Guard helicopter was dispatched to observe the eruption and instead saw a man standing by spray-painted show reading, "APRIL FOOL."
* see
** https://school4schools.com/wiki/index.php?title=Geography_fun_facts_%26_oddities#Volcanos
** https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-greatest-april-fools-day-prank-of-all-time-took-four-years-to-plan-and-involved-a-volcano/ Greatest April Fools Day Prank of All Time (iflscience.com)]
** http://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/the_eruption_of_mount_edgecumbe/
 
 
== Historical hoaxes ==


== Religious hoaxes ==
== Religious hoaxes ==


== Scientific hoaxes ==
== Scientific hoaxes ==