Hoaxes in science

urban legend about the existence of a game on the Russophonic internet that allegedly incites teenagers to commit suicide

paleoanthropological hoax

chess automaton hoax

hoax where water is presented by an uncommon name

1996 hoax accepted by an academic journal

fake newspaper article series

website

Rune-covered stone slab unearthed in 1898 in Kensington, Minnesota

cat, described by his owner Ph.D. Jack H. Hetherington as a United States-based scientist and co-author of works on cryogenics

thumb|Babylonokia Babylonokia (also Babylon-Nokia, Alien-Mobile, and Cuneiform Mobile Phone) is a 2012 artwork by Karl Weingärtner in the form of a clay tablet shaped like a mobile phone, its keys and screen showing cuneiform script.

fictional chemical substance

nineteenth century US hoax

American philosophy professor and author

South Korean scientist

species of mammals

2018 group of bogus academic papers

1995 television film

thumb|A mock taxidermy of a rhinograde, using its "nasorium" to fish, at the [[Musée zoologique de la ville de Strasbourg.]]

Nacirema ("American" spelled backwards) is a term used in anthropology and sociology in relation to aspects of the behavior and society of citizens of the United States. The neologism attempts to create a deliberate sense of self-distancing in order that American anthropologists might look at their own culture more objectively, thus comparing emic and etic views of it.

SCIgen is a paper generator that uses context-free grammar to randomly generate nonsense in the form of computer science research papers. Its original data source was a collection of computer science papers downloaded from CiteSeer. All elements of the papers are formed, including graphs, diagrams, and citations. Created by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, its stated aim is "to maximize amusement, rather than coherence." Originally created in 2005 to expose the lack of scrutiny of submissions to conferences, the generator subsequently became used, primarily by Chinese a

thumb|300px|Rudolf Granberg's prepared skvader The skvader () is a Swedish fictional creature that was constructed in 1918 by the taxidermist Rudolf Granberg and is permanently displayed at the museum at Norra Berget in Sundsvall. It has the head, forequarters and hindlegs of a European hare (Lepus europaeus), and the back, wings and tail of a female wood grouse (Tetrao urogallus). It was later jokingly given the Latin name Tetrao lepus pseudo-hybridus rarissimus L.

1864 carbonaceous chondrite meteorite fall in southwestern France

Japanese stem-cell researcher (born 1983)

alleged reports of time traveling

chess-playing "pseudo-automaton" built in 1876

urban legend

urban legend

hoax fossils

Legendary creature

French academic dispute

human skull found in Calaveras County

British botanist (1881-1967)

Internet hoax and fictional animal

scientific article published on October 4, 2013

Genpets are a mixed media installation art piece by artist Adam Brandejs. It is considered a hoax of exposure. The project has been shown in multiple galleries in Canada and Europe and has garnered some attention in the mass media.

Thiotimoline is a fictitious chemical compound conceived by American biochemist and science fiction author Isaac Asimov. It was first described in a spoof scientific paper titled "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" in 1948. The major peculiarity of the chemical is its "endochronicity": it starts dissolving before it makes contact with water.

1970s misinformation about food additives

scientific hoax in Latvia

fictional NASA document

Early Argentinian effort to develop nuclear fusion

hoax that emerged in parts of the Western world in the early 2000s, claiming that a scientific study had estimated that blonds would become extinct within the next two centuries

fictional character

mycological hoax using burnt golf balls

American physician (1834-1877)

proposed method of generating pluripotent stem cells

parapsychology hoax

South Korean academic prodigy

American fraudster

fish species hoax