by Anonymous on April 28th, 2007

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What would you consider to be the greatest hoax of all time? (e.g. Amityville horror etc)

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by Mirage V2.0 AWOL on April 28th, 2007
Orson Welles radio show, "War of the Worlds", broadcast on a Halloween night convinced thousands of people that the Earth was being invaded.

BTW- this preceded TV, giving radio a lot of credibility.
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by Friartuck on April 29th, 2007
Religion...
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by George Dufferin on April 28th, 2007
election of George Bush
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by Cowboy-Matter of Fact on April 29th, 2007
Global warming being caused by man.
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by tripwire on September 1st, 2008
religion
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by singwell-is off researching a lot on April 29th, 2007
the supposed death of Paul McCartney. (seeing as the "War of the World" hoax by Orson Welles has already been mentioned)
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by Bitto on November 5th, 2011
Religion
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by Anonymous on July 2nd, 2007
Darwinism.

-In the Master's service.
Thank you and God bless you!
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by Nuttsky on May 11th, 2007
Probably the Orson Welles "War of the Worlds" radio show that so many listeners took as fact.
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by Nemo_S on September 1st, 2008
September 11, 2001, greatest act of fraud and social manipulation by a combined group of international criminals since Chernoble and Challenger and maybe in History...

~Nemo~
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by unknown on July 2nd, 2007
I vote for Piltdown Man. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/piltdown.html
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by fluffylucy on November 5th, 2011
god
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by Cyanotic Wasp on September 1st, 2008
Social Security
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by 98 percent of Dwarfs on September 1st, 2008
The UK governments claim that they understand the economy..
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by sloth2008 on September 1st, 2008
in england int he 60s there was a paronama show (that being our watchdog type show the kind that does the truth behind the war and that shit) that said that spegetti grows on trees for an april fools and everyone believed it so that will have to mine
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by ChelseaMark on April 29th, 2007
The moon landing.
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by Gratefully Me on November 6th, 2011
The god concept.
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by uncacal on May 25th, 2009
Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction
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by hayleyboobs on May 25th, 2009
the devil covincing the world he didnt exist.
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by Simply99 -- Not a fan favorite. on September 1st, 2008
Y2K.
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by mikedsign on November 5th, 2011
Money
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by CabbyZ on November 5th, 2011
Columbus and the whole "The Earth is Round" crowd.

Bunch of *ID-TEN-T's* there I'm *tellin'* ya now!
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by NotSuspiciousAtAll on November 5th, 2011
Supply-side economics.
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