The concept, and some of the sampled material, came from a San Francisco television news program that was taken in by a media hoax perpetrated by Negativland while promoting its previous album, Escape from Noise.

Practicing physicians have dismissed the concept of mucoid plaque as a hoax and a " non-credible concept ".

The toothing hoax has been studied by a sociologist at University of Amsterdam ( pictured ).

" When announcing the hoax, Curran and Byron reassured that toothing was nothing more than a practical joke gone too far and despite all the articles in newspapers and tabloids, " no one has ever ever, ever toothed.

The Legion also started out having to earn the respect of the United Planets, which they did through two well-earned victories: successfully defending Earth from the White Triangle Daxamites, a group of Nazi-style racial purists ; and exposing United Planets President Chu as the mastermind behind the Braal-Titan War, the Sun Eater hoax, the formation of the Fatal Five and the brainwashing of future Legionnaire Jan Arrah.

The controversy started in 2002 when rumors spread on Usenet newsgroups that the work was a deliberate hoax intended to target weaknesses in the peer review system employed by the physics community to select papers for publication in academic journals.

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.

As shown on the DVD, the " hoax " was on even before photography started as several media outlets announced the upcoming production as an actual film.

Some shock sites display a single picture, animation, video clip or a small gallery, and are often passed around via e-mail or disguised in posts to discussion sites as a hoax in an attempt to trick users into following the link to the website ( a bait and switch ).

After a dead body appeared in Superman's tomb, prompting the world to wonder if the Superman who was flying around was the original or a fake, Superman began to track down all of his foes who might be capable of such a hoax.

Set in and around the U. S. stories, Grimlock and the Dinobots were the stars of several stories while self-exiled from the other Autobots, including In The National Interest where they tried to help expose the Robo-Master hoax.

It was previously thought that he invented eyeglasses around 1284, although the evidence now suggests that this was a hoax.

In 2011 he perpetrated a Twitter hoax revolving around Osama Bin Laden being a fan of The IT Crowd.

The story was reported as fact in newspapers around Australia and appeared as a cover story in the TV guide of Melbourne's Herald Sun before the media realised the hoax.

The hoax circulated around Greek websites and was widely reproduced without verification by many reputable sources from newspapers to the then Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs ( see Urban legend spread bellow ).

Hunting For Bambi is a series of hoax videos publicized in 2003 that center around a fictional competition to hunt semi-naked women with paintball guns in the deserts of Las Vegas.

centered around this footage, which was later debunked ( by FOX ) as being a hoax.

As a result of discussion revolving around the possibility of the character's appearance in Street Fighter III during the game's development, EGM revisited the joke in 1997, printing an updated version of the hoax for the title while establishing a backstory and appearance for the character in the process.

Steven Moffat states on the Doctor Who Confidential episode " Script to Screen " that the clockwork people were inspired by The Turk, a clockwork man who played chess around the same period ( and which was later revealed to be a hoax ).

In a series of articles in the Japanese magazine Shukan Bunshun published on January 25, February 1 and March 15, 2001, the magazine alleged that the stone tools discovered at the Hijiridaki cave site ( 聖嶽洞窟遺跡 ) in Ōita Prefecture had also been forgeries, and indicated that Mitsuo Kagawa, a professor at Beppu University, had been involved in that hoax.

The hoax came back to life in March 2007 in Spanish-language media when the Press Agency EFE distributed a piece referring to it.

Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard ( 18 March 1920 – 3 February 2000 ) was a French draughtsman, best known for being the principal perpetrator of the Priory of Sion hoax, by which he claimed from the 1960s onwards that he was a Merovingian descendant of Dagobert II and the " Great Monarch " prophesied by Nostradamus.

On 10 March 2005, he pleaded guilty under the United Nations ( Anti-Terrorism Measures ) Regulations to trying to hoax Yeow about a bomb on 4 February 2005 at 8 pm, and was jailed for 2½ years.

A hoax recipe for its " extraction " from banana peel was originally published in the Berkeley Barb in March 1967.

The fact, however, is that Boxer activity intensified in response to the German invasion in Shandong during March 1899-before the hoax was invented in Denver.

In October 2004, MetaFilter members uncovered the identities of the writers of the hoax Web site Nick Nolte's Diary.

Wassef Ali Hassoun () ( born January 1, 1980 ) was a United States Marine Corps corporal who was charged with desertion for leaving his unit and apparently engaging with others in a hoax to make it appear that he had been captured by terrorists on June 19, 2004 while serving in Iraq.

In the Skeptical Inquirer magazine ( September – October 2004 ), the article “ Obscurantism, Tyranny, and the Fallacy of Either Black or White ” quotes Prof. Bergen Evans: “ Obscurantism and tyranny go together .” Amid intellectual battles about the nature of scientific theory, among scientific realists and postmodern critics, Prof. Sokal submitted his hoax article for publication.

For example, in 2004 Walmart carried the anti-Semitic hoax The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in its online catalogue.

For instance, in December 2004, PublishAmerica agreed to publish the novel Atlanta Nights, which was later revealed to be a hoax.

The series depicts events from September 2004, in which William Shatner played a hoax on the small town of Riverside, Iowa by claiming to film a science fiction movie there.

In February 2004, Peters ' new line-up of Alarm MM ++ carried out a hoax on the British music industry by issuing " 45 RPM " under the fictitious name the Poppy Fields.

In the fall of 2004, an Internet hoax stated that the Military Personnel Records Center was destroying paper copies of all records in lieu of computer scanning.

Another common form of email chain letter is the virus hoax and a form of cyberbullying.

' irresponsibly characterized chiropractic care -- a legitimate, research-based form of health care -- as a fraudulent hoax.

Lampert has stated that " the greatest hoax played upon the world is the importance of the male stroking during intercourse ... used in nearly all male / female porno material " citing studies which show that only about a third of all women say thrusting feels good, to a degree, and that only 18 % say they believe they can have an orgasm from any form of stroking.

Images may be propagated memetically via e-mail as humor or passed as actual news in a form of hoax.

An internet video claimed that he died a year later from an incurable form of leukemia, but later the Trainrider revealed in an interview that this video was made by a fan and the story of his death was a hoax.

The historian Andrew Markus wrote that " In the 1990s league publications were still promoting The Protocols, describing the Holocaust as a ' hoax ', the invention of Zionist propagandists, identifying prominent Jewish individuals in public life and declaring that modern Christianity was ' little more than a form of Liberal Judaism '.

A spokesperson for POM replied: " If it is a hoax, it is a form of blackmail.

In Jacques Derrida's response, " Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious ," first published in Le Monde, Derrida writes that the Sokal hoax is rather " sad ," not only because Alan Sokal's name is now linked primarily to a hoax, not to science, but also because the chance to reflect seriously on these issues has been ruined for a broad public forum that deserves better.

On April 4, 2005, the creators of the forum admitted that the whole thing was a hoax.

In Jacques Derrida's response, " Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious ," first published in Le Monde, Derrida writes that the Sokal hoax is rather " sad ," not only because Alan Sokal's name is now linked primarily to a hoax, not to science, but also because the chance to reflect seriously on this issue has been ruined for a broad public forum that deserves better.

In Jacques Derrida's response, " Sokal and Bricmont Aren't Serious ," first published in Le Monde, Derrida writes that the Sokal hoax is rather " sad ," not only because Alan Sokal's name is now linked primarily to a hoax, not science, but also because the chance to reflect seriously on this issue has been ruined for a broad public forum that deserves better.