[JoeProBono]

Cardiff Giant

In 1869 an astounding find was unearthed by a farmer and a cigar maker: a ten-foot-tall (three-meter-tall), 3,000-pound (1,360-kilogram) stone man buried near Cardiff, New York. The massive statue was an obvious hoax—experts said the giant, sculpted from gypsum, was of undoubtedly recent provenance. But the brothers made a bundle charging tourists 50 cents to view the "Cardiff Giant" nonetheless.

It's true that dinosaurs are related to birds. But one purported missing link turned out to be foul play. Archaeoraptor liaoningensis, a birdlike creature with the tail of a carnivorous dinosaur, was featured in National Geographic magazine and displayed at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., in 1999.

But like Piltdown Man, the find proved too good to be true. What's now dubbed the Piltdown Chicken was a composite of fossils from two different creatures. National Geographic confirmed the mistake in April 2000.

Massive footprints in the snow spooked miners in the 1920s, who feared Sasquatch, or Bigfoot, was on their trail. But retired logger Rant Mullens admitted in 1982 that he'd helped perpetrate the legend by stamping giant footprints in the snow of Washington's Mount St. Helens using the carved wooden "feet" seen above.

On the right, a boy in 1975 holds a plaster cast his father, Mark Pettinger, believed to be a Sasquatch footprint found in Puyallup, Washington. Hoax—or not?

[Flycatcher]

You forgot to add “Man-made Global Warming” to the list.

[MortMan]

Happy Obama Day to you, too!

[RegulatorCountry]

They’ve gotten much better since Piltdown. Now, entire species are created from a bone fragment the size of a dime.

[Westbrook]

>It’s true that dinosaurs are related to birds.

Really?

Let’s see.

* Lizards have a 3-chambered heart, birds have a 4-chambered heart.

* Lizards have solid bones, birds have hollow bones.

* Lizards are cold-blooded, birds are warm-blooded.

Of course, they have a lot of DNA in common, not only with eachother, but with us.

The evolutionists believe that is evidence of common ancestry.

I used to believe that.

Now I come to see it more as evidence of a common designer.

[stormer]

[Joe 6-pack]

While not a "scientific" hoax, I think an April Fool's Day salute is in order to my favorite forger of all times, Hans Van Meegeren. Van Meegeren painstakingly forged a number of Vermeer paintings, selling the fakes to the Nazi hierarchy including Hermann Goring. Following the war, Dutch officials sought to prosecute him for selling national treasures to the nazis, forcing him to admit to his acts of forgery for which he was tried and convicted instead.

Any guy who swindles nazis is good in my book :-)

Van Meegeren's "Christ at Emmaus" originally attributed to Vermeer

[evets]

[houeto]

Man! Sure didn’t take very long for your thread to get hijacked. Could have been fun. I’m outta here.

[Oatka]

Don't forget my favorite, the "Lost Tribe" of Tasadays that the scientific community, and eco-nuts, were wetting themselves over.

As an example of their willing gullibility, from that site:

Disclosure - In 1986, nearly 15 years after the Tasaday were first discovered, everything changed. General Marcos's tyrannous regime was ousted and a new, freer, democratic government took its place.

A Swiss writer and Anthropologist named Oswald Iten took advantange of the opportunity to study the Tasaday without the former government's restrictions. He brought Joey Lozano, a journalist from South Cotabato, with him on his expedition. Strangely, when they reached the caves, they found them deserted. A search of the surrounding area led to the discovery of the same "Stone Age" people a short distance away living in modest huts, wearing T-shirts and blue jeans.

Iten and Lozano realized that the whole thing was a glorious hoax. Further research showed that the Tasaday actually came from two other tribes, tribes that had been part of the modern world for years. They publicized their findings through an ABC television documentary entitled The Tribe that Never Was. Millions of viewers were confronted with the images of Filipinos in T-shirts and Levi's laughing at the pictures of themselves from National Geographic. One anthropologist called the Tasaday, "rain forest clock punchers" who were "cave people" by day and went home to their families at night.

In retrospect, the fraud seemed obvious. Why, some wondered, were the caves so clean? Even a Stone Age tribe would have had garbage, such as crab shells or scraps of food. And how did such a small tribe avoid inbreeding? Also, the Tasaday were a mere three hours walk from an modern village. It seemed odd that they would not have encountered this village while searching for food. And if that was not enough evidence of a hoax, anthropologist, Thomas Headland conducted an investigation on the Tasaday and produced "eight little known facts about the Tasaday." These were:
1. The Tasaday were found wearing commercially manufactured cloth. They were asked to remove their clothes and wear their "traditional" garb.
2. The Tasaday must have traded with other tribes. They had brass, metal tipped arrows, bows made of cultivated bamboo, glass beads, iron knives, and tin cans, just to name a few of the foreign items that Headland mentions.
3. Nearby tribes ate meat from animals killed by the Tasaday, and gave them cultivated food in return.
4. The South Cotabato rain forest lacks the amount of starch foods necessary to sustain the Tasaday. Headland writes, "It has been generally assumed until recently that tropical rain forests are food-rich biomes for human foragers, and that prehistoric hunter-gatherers once lived completely independent of cultivated foods in such environments. An alternative hypothesis that such forests are actually food-poor for humans is proposed here. Specifically, that wild starch foods such as yams were so scarce and so hard to extract that human foragers could not have lived in such biomes without recourse to cultivated foods...."
5. The Tasaday were never directly observed subsisting on gathered food. Scientists simply assumed they did.
6. The Tasaday bamboo tools were cultivated bamboo. Their bamboo was the sun-loving type which cannot grow in the rain forest.
7. The Tasaday stone tools were fake. They were made at the request of the officials in charge.
8. In the Tasaday language, 85% of the words were identical to the Cotabato Manobo speech, which is spoken by most of the tribes in the area.

[SunkenCiv]

Bogeymen of the C02 hoax losing ground
Canada Free Press | 3/30/09 | Tim Ball
Posted on 03/30/2009 4:25:16 PM PDT by pissant
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218479/posts

No Fooling: There’s a Hoax Museum
The Kansas City Star | Tue, Mar. 31, 2009 | Edward M. Eveld
Posted on 04/02/2009 1:46:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2220973/posts