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Museum of Hoaxes

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Website
Museum of Hoaxes
OwnerAlex Boese
URLhoaxes.org
Launched1997

TheMuseum of Hoaxes is a website created byAlex Boese in 1997 inSan Diego, California, as a resource for reporting and discussinghoaxes andurban legends, both past and present.[1][2][3][4]

In 2004, PC Magazine included the site as one of the "Top 100 Sites You Didn't Know You Couldn't Live Without",[5][6] and Sci Fi Weekly named it "site of the week" for the week beginning 7 February 2007.[7]

Boese has published two books on hoaxes:Museum of Hoaxes[8] andHippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S.[9] A third book by Boese,Elephants on Acid,[10] focuses on unusual scientific experiments, with the follow-upElectrified Sheep published in 2011.[11] His latest bookPsychedelic Apes, about the weirdest theories in science and history, was published in 2019.[12]

Notable hoaxes covered

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References

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  1. ^Emery, David,"The Bunk Stops Here: An interview with Alex Boese, curator of the Museum of Hoaxes",San Francisco Chronicle, December 19, 2002 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006).
  2. ^Berman, A. S.,"Museum-of-Hoaxes highlights online gullibility",USA Today, August 16, 2001 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006).
  3. ^Terdiman, Daniel,"Wry Hoaxes Enliven the World of Web Diarists",The New York Times, July 29, 2004 (URL last accessed May 23, 2008).
  4. ^Shafer, Jack (29 March 2007)."The April Fools' Day Defense Kit". Slate. Retrieved29 October 2018.
  5. ^"Museum of Hoaxes" (advertiser profile),Federated Media Publishing, URL last accessed November 1, 2006.
  6. ^"The Museum of Hoaxes"Archived 2009-03-18 at theWayback Machine,PC Magazine, April 20, 2004 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006).
  7. ^Dellamonica, A. M.,"Museum of Hoaxes"Archived 2009-03-04 at theWayback Machine,Sci Fi Weekly, February 7, 2007 (URL last accessed November 17, 2007).
  8. ^E.P. Dutton, 2002,ISBN 0-525-94678-0
  9. ^Harvest Books, 2006,ISBN 0-15-603083-7
  10. ^Harvest Books, 2007,ISBN 978-0-15-603135-6
  11. ^Boxtree, 2011,ISBN 9781250031709
  12. ^Macmillan, 2019,ISBN 978-1509860524
  13. ^"90 Day Jane".Museum of Hoaxes. Retrieved2022-11-11.

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