This bridge was nicknamed the " Mierscheid Bridge ".

Mierscheid, Nagelmann and Dräcker each have a long list of publications which have sometimes really been published in otherwise reputable media ( science journals, parliament press )-non-native readers might be fooled here ( compare April Fools Day ).

Jakob Maria Mierscheid MdB ( born 1 March 1933 ) has been a fictitious politician in the German Bundestag since 11 December 1979.

First listed as official delegate to the Social Democrat Party congress in Hannover 1960, Mierscheid first visited the West German capital in 1967.

Following his time as deputy chairman of the Mittelstandsausschuß ( similar to the US Small Business Committee ) of the Bundestag in 1981 and 1982, he wrote an article on the " Mierscheid Law " in the Social Democrats ' central journal Vorwärts published on 14 July 1983.

The only picture of Jakob Maria Mierscheid, from the German Bundestag archive.

In 1983 the party magazine Vorwärts published the still valid () Mierscheid Law and claimed Mierscheid as the author, demonstrating a correlation between federal election results and West German industrial production.

Mierscheid has his own stationery and e-mail address and issues press releases now and then.

The picture of Mierscheid at the Bundestag is based on the RTL Samstag Nacht character Karl Ranseier.

The biography of Jakob Maria Mierscheid is that of a backbencher with a list of humble career steps.

Later Dietrich Sperling and Friedhelm Wollner published " Jakob Mierscheid, Notes on the Life of a Member of Parliament: a Political Holography " in 1998.

On 11 December 2004, Mierscheid celebrated his 25th anniversary as member of the Bundestag.

In July 2005 the German Tagesschau announced the exit of Mierscheid from SPD to the German Linkspartei and WASG.

After the historic defeat in the 2009 election, Mierscheid quoted Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem Ulysses in German to raise the spirits of his comrades in the Bundestag.

Most listings of the members of the German parliament feature the fictitious politician Jakob Maria Mierscheid, allegedly a member of the parliament since 1979.

The Mierscheid law is hypothesis, published in the German magazine Vorwärts on 14 July 1983 and attributed to the fictitious politician Jakob Maria Mierscheid.

However, an article attributed to Jakob Mierscheid, published on the German Federal Parliament's website provided a correction to the hypothesis, to take account of the special situation.

Hill initially believed the call was a hoax and referred the matter to the Brandeis University campus police who alerted the FBI.

Later, it was revealed to be a collaborative hoax that Capp and his longtime pal Saunders had cooked up together.

The wife of Scoop Beal, the editor of the Humboldt Standard, which later combined with the Humboldt Times, in which Genzoli's story had appeared, has stated that her husband was in on the hoax with Wallace.

Author Jerome Clark argues that the Jacko Affair, involving an 1884 newspaper report of an apelike creature captured in British Columbia, was a hoax.

Dyer and Whitton subsequently admitted it was a hoax after being confronted by Steve Kulls, executive director of Squatchdetective. com.

In August 2012 a man in Montana was killed by a car while perpetrating a Bigfoot hoax using a ghillie suit.

This was subsequently exposed as a hoax and has been replaced on the source web site with more accurate information.

Porpora said the claim that the tradition began in 1949 was a hoax in order to raise money and enhance the profile of the church.

A bronze plaque inscribed with Drake's claim to the new lands – Drake's Plate of Brass – fitting the description in his account, was discovered in Marin County, California but was later declared a hoax.

The Goodtimes Virus was a computer virus hoax that spread during the early years of the Internet's popularity.

No formal clarification of the hoax film was provided by the subsequent release, The Hollywood Hall of Shame.

Since then, and even in recent years, public spokesmen in Haiti as well as international academics and statesmen have denounced this event as the payment of an illegitimate debt, in several cases calling on the French government to repay it ( the French government has never been willing to repay it, though there was a hoax following the 2010 Haiti Earthquake involving a fake website purporting to offer reparation payment on behalf of the French Government ).

" " Hengist and Horsus " appear as antagonists in William Henry Ireland's play Vortigern and Rowena, which was touted as a newly-discovered work by William Shakespeare in 1796, but was soon revealed as a hoax.

He claims that he studied the photograph so often and from many different angles that he was able to discern objects that prove the photograph is not a hoax.

Alastair Boyd, one of the researchers who uncovered the hoax, argues that the Loch Ness Monster is real, and that although the famous photo was hoaxed, that does not mean that all the photos, eyewitness reports, and footage of the monster were as well.

Scottish politician Nicholas Fairbairn pointed out that the name was an anagram for " Monster hoax by Sir Peter S ".

In what is known as the Taxil hoax, he claimed that supposedly leading Freemason Albert Pike had addressed " The 23 Supreme Confederated Councils of the world " ( an invention of Taxil ), instructing them that Lucifer was God, and was in opposition to the evil god Adonai.

Some inconsistencies in Downey's account ( e. g., the swastika was painted in reverse, suggesting that Downey had drawn it himself in a mirror ), and the failure of the police to find supportive evidence, led many to suspect that the incident was a hoax and a plea for attention.

Milgram's unpublished analysis indicated that many subjects suspected that the experiment was a hoax, a finding that casts doubt on the veracity of his results.

He therefore concludes, contrary to Freeman, that Mead was never the victim of a hoax.

The book was later revealed to be based on a hoax originating with Pierre Plantard in the mid-20th century.

In an interview on the NPR program All Things Considered, Sokal said he was inspired to submit the hoax article after reading Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science ( 1994 ), by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt.

The three MIT graduate students who wrote the hoax article said they were ignorant of the Sokal Affair until after submitting their article.

The police said that the father engineered the hoax with the hope of generating enough publicity in order to get the family back into the reality-show business, after two appearances on ABC's Wife Swap.

The statement made by " Mayor Tilman " to the FBI agents is paraphrased from a quote by U. S. Senator James Eastland, who reportedly said that when the three civil rights workers ( Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman ) went missing in Mississippi on June 21, 1964, " the incident is a hoax and there is no Ku Klux Klan in the state ; the three have gone to Chicago ", and that it was staged by the three young men to call attention to their cause.

Moore said in 1989 that these documents were also a hoax created by Doty.

Dr. Samuel Rosenberg said that the " Book of Dyzan ", referred to by von Däniken, was " a fabrication superimposed on a gigantic hoax concocted by Madame Blavatsky.

ABC did not retract the story ( the WABC TV producer insisted that Skaggs had said it was a hoax to avoid prosecution ), possibly because the piece had been nominated for an Emmy Award.

" The Animal Liberation Brigade said in a communique re-released by the Animal Liberation Press Office that the act was not a hoax, with officials at the primate center claiming threats and protests have happened before and were unacceptable.

It is said that once the hoax finally became clear, Beringer attempted to buy up all copies of his book and ruined himself financially in the process ; it is not clear whether this is true or merely a legend.

The letters and accompanying map are controversial and are regarded by at least one historian as a hoax, either by the Zeno brothers themselves or by their descendant who wrote a narrative which he said was based on what was left of letters that he had torn up as a boy.

Albert described LeRoy as a " veil " rather than a " hoax ", and claimed that she was able to write things as LeRoy that she could not have said as Laura Albert.

Hence, and elsewhere, on publication day, in the May 1996 edition of the Lingua Franca journal, in the article “ A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies ”, Prof. Sokal announced that his transformative hermeneutics article was a parody, submitted “ to test the prevailing intellectual standards ”, concluding that, as an academic publication, Social Text ignored the requisite intellectual rigor of verification and “ felt comfortable publishing an article on quantum physics without bothering to consult anyone knowledgeable in the subject .” Moreover, as a public intellectual, Prof. Sokal said his hoax was an action protesting against the contemporary tendency towards obscurantism — abstruse, esoteric, and vague writing in the social sciences:

In " Route 666 " Marcy D ' Arcy said that when they thought Al had died, they all started dancing and singing " Ding Dong, the shoe man's dead " and called it a " cruel, cruel hoax " when they learned it was a false alarm — as usual, Al had survived his latest misadventure.

Blair later said later that he knew it was a hoax caller after they called him Tony whereas Hague would always call him " Prime Minister ".

Eventually, the grand jury ruled the entire matter was " a carefully crafted hoax ," although they failed to identify the perpetrators of said hoax.

In 2003 Ogrizovic was the subject of a hoax that said that he had been kidnapped in Kazakhstan and an online petition was set up to campaign to get him released.

Paul Kurtz, State University of New York at Buffalo philosophy professor and then chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal said the Warrens weren ’ t objective, independent, or impartial investigators and characterized the Smurls claims as “ a hoax, a charade, a ghost story .” Kurtz said that the Smurls claims were possibly due to delusions, hallucinations or brain impairment, and advised that they submit themselves to psychiatric and psychological examinations.

" A lot of Jewish kids were converting to Buddhism then ," Paul Glusman said, so Albert cooked up a hoax, getting a letter mailed from Japan to the paper reporting that " all the Buddhist kids in Japan were converting to Judaism.

Tydings labeled McCarthy's charges a " fraud and a hoax ," and said that the result of McCarthy's actions was to " confuse and divide the American people [...] to a degree far beyond the hopes of the Communists themselves.