Famous hoaxes
Hoax
- noun: a deliberate deception, for humor or mal (bad) intent
- verb: to deceive deliberately
This page is a list of famous hoaxes See also
Academic hoaxes[edit | edit source]
Sokal Affair[edit | edit source]
- a hoax by Professor of Physics Alan Sokal
- Sokal published a paper purporting to take seriously the idea that the laws of physics are social constructs
- he objective was to satirize post-modernist theories in the social sciences
- link to his paper: Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity (nyu.edu)
- see:
April Fools hoaxes and pranks[edit | edit source]
- for list of pranks, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_April_Fools%27_Day_jokes
General hoaxes[edit | edit source]
Geographic hoaxes[edit | edit source]
April's Fool volcano prank[edit | edit source]
- 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/