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These historical forgeries show what makes misinformation so successful

By Lee Weinstein: When I was a child, my father gave me a set of the illustrated New World Family Encyclopedia, published in 1954. One illustration that burned itself into my brain was composed of photographs of three sculptured busts of “cavemen” peering out from under the entry for “Man” in volume 12. They were

<strong>23 November 1953</strong>: Scientists pronounce the jaw and eyetooth found in 1912 and supposedly evidence of an early human species to be ‘deliberate fakes’

Kai gave me this lovely piece of old Scientology propaganda. The 1968 book Scientology: A History of Man is a re-titled edition of something L.R. Hubbard completed in 1951-52 and disseminated under the title What To Audit. After the formerly secret teachings about Xenu the evil space emperor etc., this is probably the most widely ridiculed text of Scientology.

For as long as people have been making discoveries and expanding the breadth of human knowledge, others have been lying about it. Maybe the hoaxer seeks

When drawings and dried skins of the platypus first arrived in Europe from Australia at the end of the 18th century, no one knew what to make of it. A

The Summer Science Exhibition shows the enduring appeal of the prehistoric

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

The greatest scientific fraud of the 20th century is not so well known outside of professional paleontologist circles.

The Spectator magazine has identified a new demographic for political parties to woo — but they shouldn’t forget about hard-pressed parents like me, says Harriet Walker