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    Museum of Hoaxes

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    Museum of Hoaxes
    OwnerAlex Boese
    URLhoaxes.org
    Launched1997

    The Museum of Hoaxes is a website created by Alex Boese in 1997 in San Diego, California, as a resource for reporting and discussing hoaxes and urban legends, both past and present.[1][2][3][4]

    In 2004, PC Magazine included the site as one of the "Top 100 Sites You Didn't Know You Couldn't Live Without",[5][6] and Sci Fi Weekly named it "site of the week" for the week beginning 7 February 2007.[7]

    Boese has published two books on hoaxes: Museum of Hoaxes[8] and Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S.[9] A third book by Boese, Elephants on Acid,[10] focuses on unusual scientific experiments, with the follow-up Electrified Sheep published in 2011.[11] His latest book Psychedelic Apes, about the weirdest theories in science and history, was published in 2019.[12]

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    References

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    1. ^ Emery, David, "The Bunk Stops Here: An interview with Alex Boese, curator of the Museum of Hoaxes", San Francisco Chronicle, December 19, 2002 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006).
    2. ^ Berman, A. S., "Museum-of-Hoaxes highlights online gullibility", USA Today, August 16, 2001 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006).
    3. ^ Terdiman, Daniel, "Wry Hoaxes Enliven the World of Web Diarists", The New York Times, July 29, 2004 (URL last accessed May 23, 2008).
    4. ^ Shafer, Jack (29 March 2007). "The April Fools' Day Defense Kit". Slate. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
    5. ^ "Museum of Hoaxes" (advertiser profile), Federated Media Publishing, URL last accessed November 1, 2006.
    6. ^ "The Museum of Hoaxes" Archived 2009-03-18 at the Wayback Machine, PC Magazine, April 20, 2004 (URL last accessed November 1, 2006).
    7. ^ Dellamonica, A. M., "Museum of Hoaxes" Archived 2009-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Sci Fi Weekly, February 7, 2007 (URL last accessed November 17, 2007).
    8. ^ E.P. Dutton, 2002, ISBN 0-525-94678-0
    9. ^ Harvest Books, 2006, ISBN 0-15-603083-7
    10. ^ Harvest Books, 2007, ISBN 978-0-15-603135-6
    11. ^ Boxtree, 2011, ISBN 9781250031709
    12. ^ Macmillan, 2019, ISBN 978-1509860524
    13. ^ "90 Day Jane". Museum of Hoaxes. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
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