Examples of this type include the jdbgmgr.exe virus hoax and the SULFNBK.EXE hoax.

1914 Talgai skull (Australia) found, considered, at the time, to confirm Piltdown.

Financial markets returned to their pre hoax level.

Is the information verifiable? Is it a hoax? Is it true? Is it what?

It was later revealed as a hoax and the story was retracted two days later.

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The market s vulnerability to hoax stories is thus difficult to eliminate, for it is inherent in its structure.

Some strident voices are even dismissing climate change as a hoax on a par with the Y2K computer bug.

The examination and debate over Piltdown man caused a vast expenditure of time and effort on the fossil, with an estimated 250 papers written on the topic.

What about the AP s vulnerabilities? Attackers launched a phishing attempt against the AP s emails shortly before the hoax tweet was sent.

Very belatedly, links to the posts at East Ethnia and Belgraded, which talk about Dobrica Ćosić's Nobel Prize in Literature hoax.

Even if markets moved more slowly, there would still be a first mover who responded before such a news story was revealed as a hoax.

The focus on Charles Dawson as the main forger is supported by the accumulation of evidence regarding other archaeological hoaxes he perpetrated in the decade or two prior to the Piltdown discovery.

The likely losers in the AP Twitter hoax were later movers who did not react quickly to the news, but reacted instead to the market s movement.

In India, Vandana Shiva, an environmental activist and adviser to the government, called golden rice a hoax that is creating hunger and malnutrition, not solving it.

The AP Twitter hoax represents systemic risk that cannot be eliminated, for it arises from the interaction of highly integrated financial markets and increasingly democratized news delivery.

Find At a meeting of the Geological Society of London on 18 December 1912, Charles Dawson claimed that a workman at the Piltdown gravel pit had given him a fragment of the skull four years earlier.

When the e mails and the IPCC error were brought to light, editorial writers at The Wall Street Journal launched a vicious campaign describing climate science as a hoax and a conspiracy.

A few weeks of rain in Australia has emboldened those who think that global warming is a gigantic hoax perpetrated by the United Nations or conspiring scientists or maybe men from Mars.

Since the early 1980s, Armstrong has been the subject of a hoax saying that he converted to Islam after hearing the adhan , the Muslim call to prayer, while walking on the Moon.

Hinton left a trunk in storage at the Natural History Museum in London that in 1970 was found to contain animal bones and teeth carved and stained in a manner similar to the carving and staining on the Piltdown finds.

Contrary to the fears some may have had, therefore, the advent of the Transitional Federal Government did not turn out to be some kind of cruel hoax or yet another false start for Somalia.

An example of a tale of suspense and horror, it is also, to a certain degree, a hoax, as it was published without claiming to be fictional, and many at the time of publication (1845) took it to be a factual account.

Nor does a global solution to the challenge of climate change appear any closer. A few weeks of rain in Australia has emboldened those who think that global warming is a gigantic hoax perpetrated by the United Nations or conspiring scientists or maybe men from Mars.