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But the best hoax theorist is Bill Kaysing, author of We Never Went to the Moon.
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One of America's best hoaxes came in 1998 when Burger King announced the launch of the "Left-Handed Whopper". The company explained that the sandwich had been "re-engineered to fit more comfortably in the left hand," and that the weight was redistributed to ensure condiments wouldn't spill out of the right-hand side.
"I am planning to appeal to people who have money to organise a competition for the best journalistic hoax".
"I am going to ask people who have money to organize a contest on the best media hoax," the Kremlin spokesman added.
"Melissa Katsoulis's account of some of the best literary hoaxes is hugely enjoyable: amusing, literate, learned and perceptive.
The newspaper adds: "The cache of 3,000 e-mails passed on by a source in the Syrian opposition reveals a wealth of private information — including family photographs and videos, a scan of the president's identity card and a birth certificate belonging to a family member — that would be difficult for even the best resourced hoaxer or intelligence agency to gather or fabricate".
The cache of 3,000 emails passed on by a source in the Syrian opposition reveals a wealth of private information – including family photographs and videos, a scan of the president's identity card and a birth certificate belonging to a family member – that would be difficult for even the best resourced hoaxer or intelligence agency to gather or fabricate.
His tendency to tack cliché slogans on poorly-executed pop art mashups was at the time held up as symptom of a hype-disease ailing the art world, or at best a knowing hoax.
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At best, Mr. Randi's hoax is a masterful triumph of the scientific method - as exercised by a magician - over the crude dabbling of scientists who should be more adept at what they do.
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