hoax sites

[Pat Viele <ptv1@CORNELL.EDU>]

Here is an interesting hoax web site.  There are quizzes to help
differentiate between fact and fiction.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/index.html

Alex Boese (pronounced: al-x burr-za):

                           Alex is a graduate student at UC San Diego in
the Science Studies
                           Program where he is completing a doctoral
dissertation titled The
                           Mermaid, The Moon, and The Hollow Earth about the
                           relationship between science and popular
culture in antebellum
                           America. He is also the author of The Museum of
Hoaxes, a
                           history of sensational acts of deception, to be
published by Dutton
                           Press in November, 2002.

Patricia T. Viele, Physics & Astronomy Librarian
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