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Seven of the Greatest Scientific Hoaxes
from New Scientist
For this week's issue, New Scientist includes a review of The Sun and the Moon by Matthew Goodman, which tells the story of the great moon hoax of 1835.
That got an editor there thinking about other great scientific hoaxes in the past. After doing a bit of digging, she was amazed by how many there were–and at the variety and creativity of the hoaxes. The result is a review of seven of the best.
Of course, there are serious cases of scientific fraud, such as the stem cell researchers recently found guilty of falsifying data and the South Korean cloning fraud. The stories included here, however, are not so serious.
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