As gauges of general knowledge, scientifichoaxes have their uses, just as paradoxical works have.
Yet we still hear from time to time of the attempted publication of hoaxes of greater or less ingenuity.
I say this not as imputing any blame to the true author, such hoaxes being fair election jokes in all time, but merely to put the saddle off the wrong horse, and to give one more instance of the insecurity of imputed authorship.
I may add that others, his nearest friends, and also members of his family, never heard him allude to these hoaxes as their author, and disbelieve his authorship as much as I do myself.
It was only a brief time after his arrival in Virginia City that Clemens began the series ofhoaxes which would carry his reputation, not always in an enviable fashion, across the Sierras and down the Pacific coast.
Perhaps he concluded that hoaxesin any form were dangerous playthings; they were too likely to go off at the wrong end.
He seldom indulged physically in such things; but his printed squibs and hoaxes and his keen love of the ridiculous placed him in the joker class, while his prompt temper, droll manner, and rare gift of invective made him an enticing victim.
But they've proved a lot of the reports were hoaxes or mistakes.
Those who invent hoaxes are first cousins of the boy who ties kettles or lighted torches to cats' tails.
Still, there remains a very good reason why we should oppose a disapproving front tohoaxes of all sorts.
DEAN SWIFT’S HOAX One of the most beautiful hoaxes ever perpetrated was one for which Swift was responsible.
I can and do promise, however, that if any more such hoaxes are attempted I shall do all in my power to ferret out and summarily punish the offenders!
No school principal can submit to hoaxes like that one without suffering in public esteem.
A few hoaxes and crackpot reports rounded out Mr. Shallet's article.
This was especially true in the few cases of hoaxes that always accompany UFO publicity.
But his hoaxes were far more famous than his collection of curiosities, and quite as much to the purpose; and the imprudence he displayed in them was only equalled by the quaintness of the humour which suggested them.
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