Robert Todd Carroll
Topical Index
Frauds & Hoaxes
- Aztec UFO hoax
- Bridey Murphy
- the Cardiff Giant
- "Carlos"
- Carlos Castaneda
- crop circles
- haunted houses
- herbal fuel
- the Ica stones
- Inset Fuel Stabilizer
- Multi-level Marketing (MLM)
- Multi-level Marketing (MLM) harassment
- Piltdown Hoax
- The Philadelphia Experiment
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
- pyramid schemes, chain letters, & Ponzi schemes
- The Quadro Tracker
- Rama
- Ramtha
- Sai Baba
- shroud of Turin
- the Sokal hoax
Other Sources
- Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of Hoaxes
- Federal Trade Commission Home Page
- Consumer Scam Alert Network
- Consumer Education Resource Lists
- ConsumerFraud Alert Network
- Eric's History of Perpetual Motion and Free Energy Machines
- Piltdown Man by Richard Harter
- New "Shroud" Claims Challenged as Spurious
- CNET's favorite Net Hoaxes
- The IdChip spoof
- Hoaxes of the Ages
- Fairy Tale An Untrue Story Fairy Photographs, Piltdown Man, and Faked Vermeer Paintings The Debunking of Three Hoaxes by James Opie
- Scams
Recommended Reading
Brugioni, Dino A. Photo Fakery : The History and Techniques of Photographic Deception and Manipulation ( Brasseys Inc., 1999).
Randi, James. An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, (N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1995),
Randi, James. Flim-Flam! (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1982),
Randi, James. The Truth about Uri Geller, (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1982).
Visit the James Randi room of the Skeptic's Bookstore for more books on frauds and hoaxes.
Robert Todd Carroll
