#hoaxes

Stories tagged “hoaxes” in the Weird Science History archive — 11 stories connected by this topic.

• The Minister Who Sold Gold From Seawater — With a Diver Hiding Under the Wharf
• The Perpetual Motion Machine Secretly Powered by an Old Man Upstairs Eating Bread
• The 14-Year-Old Who Convinced 43 Classmates to Ban Water
• The Platypus Pelt a Museum Keeper Cut Open With Scissors, Hunting for the Stitches
• The Fake Fossils Carved to Humiliate a Professor — Who Then Published a Book About Them
• The Cat Who Co-Authored a Physics Paper Because His Owner Used the Word 'We'
• The Chess-Playing Machine That Beat Napoleon (With a Man Hidden Inside)
• The Newspaper Hoax That Put Bat-People on the Moon
• The Petrified Giant That Was a Fake of a Fake
• Piltdown Man: The Fake Fossil That Fooled Science for 40 Years
• The Warship That Never Actually Teleported to Norfolk

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