hoax
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In 1996, physicist Alan Sokal published a hoax article full of trendy academic nonsense in the journal Social Text.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Pratt returned to “The Alex Jones Show” in 2017, when the host was under fire for falsely portraying the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut as a hoax.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
But Walsh smuggles in an entirely different claim beneath these factual details: that Parks was effectively a political actress participating in a manufactured hoax.
From Salon • May 20, 2026
Peter Kay has rescheduled his Birmingham arena show after it was called off mid performance due to an alleged bomb hoax.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
Several people who wrote letters recounted how they sniffed out the hoax.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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