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Index
COVER
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION
PREFACE
1. OTHER ANIMALS: EVOLUTION OF THE CON
2. APOCALYPTICISM: THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
3. PSEUDOARKEOLOGY: THE ARK AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW
4. PREDETERMINED COMBAT: GLADIATORS AND PRO WRESTLERS
5. SELLING EMPIRES: THE JULIAN PURCHASE
6. CRYPTOZOOLOGY: THE LOCH NESS MONSTER
7. SACRED RELICS: THE PRECIOUS PREPUCE
8. GENDER BENDING: POPE JOAN
9. SINDONOLOGY: THE SHROUD OF TURIN
10. RENAISSANCE REPROBATES: MICHELANGELO’S CUPID
11. FRAUDULENT ETHNICITY: PSALMANAZAR
12. ROMANTIC SUICIDE: THOMAS CHATTERTON
13. COUNTERFEIT WINE: THOMAS JEFFERSON’S LAFITE
14. PSEUDOSHAKESPEARE: THE BOY WHO WOULD BE BARD
15. CRYPTOANTHROPOLOGY: THE SAGA OF BIGFOOT
16. IMAGINARY LANDS: POYAIS
17. ALTERNATE REALITIES: FAKED PHOTOGRAPHS
18. AERIAL FEATS: EDGAR ALLAN POE AND THE GREAT BALLOON HOAX
19. COMMUNING WITH THE DEPARTED: SPIRITUALISM AND EVOLUTION
20. DIDDLING: THE ORIGINAL CON MAN
21. PSEUDOARCHAEOLOGY: THE DAVENPORT TABLETS
22. ULTIMATE DIETS: BREATHARIANISM
23. DEATHBED CONVERSIONS: THE LADY HOPE
24. FORGED DOCUMENTS: THE PRIORY OF SION
25. PUBLIC CREDULITY: POLITICAL LIES
26. POLITICAL PERSECUTIONS: THE DREYFUS AFFAIR
27. FINANCIAL FRAUD: THE SCAMMER SCAMMED
28. FAKE PALEOANTHROPOLOGY: PILTDOWN
29. ARCTIC EXPLORATION: ROBERT PEARY
30. QUACK MEDICINE: RADIONICS
31. MYTHOGENESIS: THE SIX MONA LISAS
32. FAKE MUSIC: FRITZ KREISLER
33. PSEUDOPLANETOLOGY: FLAT AND HOLLOW EARTHS
34. FAKE ART: TRIBUTE OR EXPLOITATION?
35. DIALECTICAL BIOLOGY: LYSENKOISM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
36. COUNTERFEIT CADAVERS: “THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS”
37. INVENTED IDENTITIES: KORLA PANDIT
38. MISGUIDED ARCHAEOLOGY: A LION IN WINTER
39. CIRCUMNAVIGATIONS THAT WEREN’T: THE SAD SAGA OF DONALD CROWHURST
40. LUNACY: CONSPIRACY THEORIES
41. HUMAN VARIATION: THE FALLACY OF RACE
42. ETERNAL LIFE: THE FROZEN SELF
43. HOMEOPATHY: THE MEMORY OF WATER
44. PSEUDOPALEONTOLOGY: “ARCHAEORAPTOR”
45. UNRELIABLE MEMORIES: FAKE MEMOIRS
46. IRRATIONAL HYSTERIA: VACCINES AND AUTISM
47. PEER REVIEW: JAN HENDRIK SCHÖN
48. BOGUS SECURITY: FAKE BOMB DETECTORS
49. FAKED DEATHS: PSEUDOCIDE
50. FAKE JOURNALISM: STEPHEN GLASS, JAYSON BLAIR, AND THEIR LEGACY
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FURTHER READING
PHOTO CREDITS
NEWSLETTERS
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