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topical index: frauds & hoaxes
 

Airborne Agrees to Pay $23.3 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over False Advertising of its "Miracle Cold Buster" (Read Terra Sigillata and Respectful Insolence)

Archaeoraptor

Aztec UFO hoax

Bridey Murphy

Cardiff Giant

"Carlos" hoax

Castaneda, Carlos

Cottingly fairy hoax

crop circle

Dianetics

Dixon, Jeane

firewalking

Ford, Arthur hoax

Fritz, Dr.

Geller, Uri (accused of being a fraud by James Randi, but he denies it)

haunted house

herbal fuel

Hutchison hoax

Ica stones

Indian rope trick

Inset Fuel Stabilizer

Januarius

Knight, J.Z. (Ramtha)

Lenz, Frederick (Rama)

medium

microacupuncture

multi-level marketing (MLM)

multi-level marketing (MLM) harassment

Nigerian scam

perfect prediction scam

Piltdown Hoax

Philadelphia Experiment

Project Alpha

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Protsch (von Zieten), Reiner

psychic

Pufedorf hoax

pyramid schemes, chain letters, & Ponzi schemes

Quadro Tracker

Raëlian

Rama

Rampa, Lobsang

Ramtha

Rath, Matthias

Rivas, Catalina

Sai Baba

shroud of Turin

Soal-Goldney experiment

Sokal hoax

Steve Terbot hoax

Trudeau, Kevin

Urantia Book

Yellow Bamboo

Other Sources 

New Brian Brushwood lectures on YouTube 1. How the shortchange con works 2. Science vs. Pseudoscience 3. How Astrology & Divinations Work 4. UFOs: What are the odds? 5. False Memory & Eyewitness Testimony 6. Bigfoot and Cryptozoology 7. Crop Circles 8. Spiritualism, Table Tipping & Dowsing 9. ESP & Probability 10. Homeopathy, Magnets, & Quackery 11. The Placebo Effect & Psychic Surgery

Too Good to Be True

"Pranks, Frauds, and Hoaxes from Around the World." Robert Carroll (2004). Skeptical Inquirer. volume 28, No. 4. July/August, pp. 41-46.

Michael Shermer and "the pigeon drop" con (YouTube)

"The Serpent’s" Tale by Kurt W. Burchfiel (Strange Magazine)

Alias Carlos Allende:The Mystery Man Behind the Philadelphia Experiment by Robert A. Goerman

Chuck Whitlock

Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of Hoaxes

Computer Virus hoaxes

Consumer Reports

Encyclopedia of Scams

Eric's History of Perpetual Motion and Free Energy Machines

Fairy Tale An Untrue Story Fairy Photographs, Piltdown Man, and Faked Vermeer Paintings The Debunking of Three Hoaxes by James Opie

Federal Consumer Information Center

Federal Trade Commission Home Page 

FTC: Miracle Health Claims - Add a Dose of Skepticism

Internet Crime Complaint Center

Internet Scambusters

It's a Fake! by Lee Moller

Museum of Hoaxes

Museum of Questionable Medical Devices

National Fraud Information Center

National Institute for Consumer Education

NESARA scam

New "Shroud" Claims Challenged as Spurious 

Piltdown Man by Richard Harter 

Rich Dad, Poor Dad

The IDChip spoof

TruthorFiction.com

Urban Legends & Folklore

Urban Legends Reference Pages snopes.com

What's Wrong with Multi-level Marketing?

Recommended Reading

Brugioni, Dino A. Photo Fakery : The History and Techniques of Photographic Deception and Manipulation (Brasseys Inc., 1999)

Feder, Kenneth L. Frauds, Mysteries and Myths: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology 3rd ed. (Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1998).

Judson, Horace Freeland. (2004). The Great Betrayal : Fraud in Science. Harcourt.

Keene, M. Lamar. The Psychic Mafia (Prometheus, 1997).

McCoy, Bob. Quack! : Tales of Medical Fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices (Santa Monica Press, 2000).

Randi, James. An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, (N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1995)

Randi, James. The Faith Healers (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1987).

Randi, James. Flim-Flam! (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1982)

Randi, James. The Truth about Uri Geller, (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1982)

Stein, Gordon. Encyclopedia of Hoaxes (Prometheus, 1993).

Stein, Gordon. Hoaxes!: Dupes, Dodges & Other Dastardly Deceptions (Visible Ink Press 1995).

Steiner, Robert A. Don't Get Taken: Bunco & Bunkum Exposed -  How to Protect Yourself (Wide-A-Wake Books, 1989).

Swierczynski, Duane. The Complete Idiot's Guide To Frauds, Scams, and Cons (Alpha Books 2002).

Last updated 07/02/09

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