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margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #916f6f; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#916f6f"><b>This might be</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Skepticism" title="Skepticism"><font size="4" color="White"><b>Skepticism</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#D3C5C5;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Skepticism" title="Category:Skepticism"><img alt="Icon skepticism.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/c/c6/Icon_skepticism.svg/100px-Icon_skepticism.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/c/c6/Icon_skepticism.svg/150px-Icon_skepticism.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/c/c6/Icon_skepticism.svg/200px-Icon_skepticism.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#916f6f; text-align:center;"><b>But we're not sure</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#D3C5C5;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pseudoskepticism" title="Pseudoskepticism">Pseudoskepticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prometheus_Books" title="Prometheus Books">Prometheus Books</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quackwatch" title="Quackwatch">Quackwatch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Skeptical_organizations" title="Category:Skeptical organizations">Skeptical organizations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Littlewood%27s_law" title="Littlewood's law">Littlewood's law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RationalWiki" title="RationalWiki">RationalWiki</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#916f6f; text-align:center;"><b>Who's asking?</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#D3C5C5;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antony_Flew" title="Antony Flew">Antony Flew</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Media_Bias/Fact_Check" title="Media Bias/Fact Check">Media Bias/Fact Check</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Hoofnagle" title="Mark Hoofnagle">Mark Hoofnagle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Nye" title="Bill Nye">Bill Nye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MythBusters" title="MythBusters">MythBusters</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Skepnav" title="Template:Skepnav">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Skepnav" title="Template talk:Skepnav">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Skepnav&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>A <b>hoax</b> is an intentionally perpetrated fraud, as opposed to a misunderstanding, mistake, or even exaggeration over time. Usually, a hoax implies <a href="/wiki/Deceit" title="Deceit">an outright lie</a>, with the evidence entirely invented from scratch. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#In_science"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">In science</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Hoaxes_of_exposure"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Hoaxes of exposure</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Fundie_interpretation_of_the_above"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Fundie interpretation of the above</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Non-science_hoaxes"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Non-science hoaxes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Politically-motivated_frauds"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Politically-motivated frauds</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#In-jokes"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">In-jokes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Mutating_into_a_Big_Lie"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Mutating into a Big Lie</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="In_science">In science</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hoax&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: In science">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Modern_frauds_in_science" title="Modern frauds in science">Modern frauds in science</a></div> <p>Scientists are, admittedly, human and therefore prone to the lapses in judgement that cause them to create hoaxes. In the context of <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>, hoaxes are intended to either bring fame to otherwise unknown scientists, to discredit another scientist or theory, or to provide "proof" of something that "<a href="/wiki/Other_ways_of_knowing" title="Other ways of knowing">we just know is right</a>". Science loathes hoaxes, and spends significant resources disproving them, even if the hoax actually adds weight to a desired argument. Some hoaxes perpetrated within the scientific community include the <a href="/wiki/Piltdown_Man" title="Piltdown Man">Piltdown Man</a> and the Tesaday Tribe. </p><p>Christian fundamentalists, in attempting to discredit science, often bring up the hoaxes that have been promulgated by scientists (including the non-hoax "exaggerations" of Haeckel). What they fail to mention is that every single hoax they know of was found and disproven by other scientists, and that religious folk have been notoriously reluctant to critically examine religious "<a href="/wiki/Miracle" title="Miracle">miracles</a>" which were later exposed as hoaxes. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Hoaxes_of_exposure">Hoaxes of exposure</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hoax&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Hoaxes of exposure">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Some hoaxes have been deliberately launched in order to shame or expose <a href="/wiki/Credulity" title="Credulity">credulity</a> or folly of various sorts. The <a href="/wiki/Sokal_affair" class="mw-redirect" title="Sokal affair">Sokal affair</a>, in which a paper purporting to be about <a href="/wiki/Quantum_physics" class="mw-redirect" title="Quantum physics">quantum physics</a> that actually claimed that all reality was a social construction, was published in a non-peer-reviewed journal dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Postmodernism" title="Postmodernism">postmodernism</a>, was one such hoax. The <a href="/wiki/Taxil_hoax" class="mw-redirect" title="Taxil hoax">Taxil hoax</a> was another, meant to discredit the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a>'s campaign against <a href="/wiki/Freemason" title="Freemason">Freemasonry</a>. </p><p>JG Ballard's short story "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Want_to_Fuck_Ronald_Reagan" class="extiw" title="wp:Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan">Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan</span></a>",<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> a parody of scientific research into <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>'s sex appeal, was distributed at the 1980 Republican National Convention ostensibly as a serious political document investigating the candidate's appeal to voters. </p><p>There are also various cases of literary and artistic figures creating intentionally bad or <a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">pseudonymous</a> hoax art and literary works to mock what they saw as a phoney artistic establishment in thrall to celebrity and with no clue of what is good or bad. This includes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ern_Malley" class="extiw" title="wp:Ern Malley" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Ern Malley">Ern Malley</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> a fake Australian modernist poet created by two curmudgeonly traditionalist writers, James McAuley and Harold Stewart, whose literary merit is still argued today.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger" class="extiw" title="wp:Naked Came the Stranger" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Naked Came the Stranger">Naked Came the Stranger</span></a></i><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> (1969) was a trashy novel created by a group of journalists led by columnist Mike McGrady as a parody of the vulgar sensationalist literature popular at the time; a string of sexual encounters linked by a feeble plot, it sold 20,000 copies before McGrady revealed the hoax, and after that it sold far more. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Brassau" class="extiw" title="wp:Pierre Brassau" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Pierre Brassau">Pierre Brassau</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> was a fake modernist painter whose works turned out to have been done by a chimpanzee, a deception instigated in 1964 by journalist Åke "Dacke" Axelsson, who claimed art critics couldn't tell the difference between works done by a monkey and an avant-garde artist.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> In 1957, a chimp called Congo had already enjoyed some art-world acclaim without any deception.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> Other such hoaxes include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disumbrationism" class="extiw" title="wp:Disumbrationism" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Disumbrationism">Disumbrationism</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> in which various bizarre daubs were displayed with pretentious commentary as <a href="/wiki/Modern_art_and_architecture" title="Modern art and architecture">modern art</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectra_(book)" class="extiw" title="wp:Spectra (book)" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Spectra (book)"><i>Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments</i></span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> doggerel meant to masquerade as modernistic poetry. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Fundie_interpretation_of_the_above">Fundie interpretation of the above</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hoax&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Fundie interpretation of the above">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Fundamentalists like to deny everything about scientific authority, so they are adamant about emphasizing <i>all</i> scientific hoaxes of the above kind, even after "science" itself has <i>disproven</i> the hoax and distanced itself from — if not disowned — the hoaxsters. Using the fact that some hoaxes have been perpetrated in the past, fundamentalists like to suggest that many fully accepted archeological, biological, and other scientific finds are also hoaxes, causing people to doubt scientific authority. </p><p>On the other hand, the opinion that all fundamental religious thought (<a href="/wiki/Oxymoron" title="Oxymoron">oxymoron</a>?) is a <a href="/wiki/Poe%27s_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Poe's law">hoax</a> is a widely held belief in some places. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Non-science_hoaxes">Non-science hoaxes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hoax&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Non-science hoaxes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Urban <a href="/wiki/Mythology" title="Mythology">mythology</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Age" title="New Age">New Age</a> studies, <a href="/wiki/Cryptozoology" title="Cryptozoology">cryptozoology</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrial" title="Extraterrestrial">extraterrestrial</a> obsessions struggle to exist on the fringes of science, and hoaxes are often employed to bring more people into the fold. Hoaxes can be widely believed for a long time if they are done well enough. Some famous examples include: </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies" class="mw-redirect" title="Cottingley Fairies">Cottingley Fairies</a>:</b> Two young girls fake photographs of fairies, fooling most of the media (and well-known nutbag spiritualist <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle" title="Arthur Conan Doyle">Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</a>), for several decades. Even after they admitted to faking them many years later — and explaining the methods — some <i>still</i> believe they're real.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Crop_circle" class="mw-redirect" title="Crop circle">Crop circles</a>:</b> Although reports of these have gone back a while, they shot to prominence in the 1970s. Their original creators have admitted to the hoax, and crop circle making is now a competitive sport in some... erm, circles.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster" title="Loch Ness Monster">Loch Ness Monster</a>:</b> The most famous photograph of the monster, taken in the 1930s, was revealed to be a hoax by one of its creators. It's actually cropped down considerably to give the illusion that the monster is much larger; the full photograph clearly shows that it's actually tiny.</li> <li><b>The Fox Sisters</b> claimed to be receiving messages from the dead — and invented <a href="/wiki/Spiritualism" title="Spiritualism">Spiritualism</a>, which is still fleecing the credulous to this day.</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Politically-motivated_frauds">Politically-motivated frauds</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hoax&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Politically-motivated frauds">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Some hoaxes are made for political purposes, typically to paint one's enemies in a bad light. This is often what is called <b>black propaganda</b>. Examples include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zinoviev_letter" title="Zinoviev letter">Zinoviev letter</a>, a fraud intended to portray the British <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party" title="Labour Party">Labour Party</a> as in the service of communists.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Learned_Elders_of_Zion" title="The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion">The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion</a></i>, pretending to be the secret agenda of <a href="/wiki/International_Jewish_conspiracy" title="International Jewish conspiracy">World Jewry</a>, but actually created by antisemites</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatchergate" class="extiw" title="wp:Thatchergate" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Thatchergate">Thatchergate</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> a hoax recording purportedly of <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> plotting war and destruction, actually created by anarcho-punk band <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crass" class="extiw" title="wp:Crass" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Crass">Crass</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup></li> <li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_Secession_hoax" class="extiw" title="wp:Flemish Secession hoax" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Flemish Secession hoax">Flemish Secession hoax</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> of 2006, which had something to do with <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgian</a> politics.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Innocence_of_Muslims" title="Innocence of Muslims">Innocence of Muslims</a>, a trailer for a non-existent film, apparently designed to annoy <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslims</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="In-jokes">In-jokes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hoax&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: In-jokes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Some hoaxes have become in-jokes, well known to those who work in a field but not obvious beyond that. One example is <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Bibfeldt" class="extiw" title="wp:Franz Bibfeldt" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Franz Bibfeldt">Franz Bibfeldt</span></a></b>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> an entirely fake theologian who began as an in-joke among students, when one was looking to bolster a term paper with a fake footnote. It mushroomed among theologians, who presumably like having something to discuss that even they can admit is a load of rubbish. In Swedish theological circles, Elof Sundin reportedly fulfils a similar role. </p><p>Another kind of harmless prank is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day" class="extiw" title="wp:April Fools' Day" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: April Fools' Day">April Fools' Day</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> joke; some newspapers and other media have constructed very elaborate hoaxes such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a>'</i>s fictional island of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Serriffe" class="extiw" title="wp:San Serriffe" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: San Serriffe">San Serriffe</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> first featured April 1, 1977. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Mutating_into_a_Big_Lie">Mutating into a <a href="/wiki/Big_Lie" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Lie">Big Lie</a></span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hoax&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 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