The encyclopedia of misinformation : a compendium of imitations, spoofs, delusions, simulations, counterfeits, impostors, illusions, confabulations, skullduggery, frauds, pseudoscience, propaganda, hoaxes, flimflam, pranks, hornswoggle, conspiracies & miscellaneous fakery - Sorgatz, Rex (New York : Abrams, 2018)
"In an era of 'alternative facts,' Rex Sorgatz's The Encyclopedia of Misinformation helps put things in perspective." -- Fast Company This compendium of misinformation, deception, and self-delusion throughout history examines fakery in the context of science and advertising, humor and law, sports and video games, and beyond.
Rumsfeld Matrix, The -- Sampuru -- Santa Claus -- Schrödinger's Cat -- Sexual Conversion Therapy -- Ship of Theseus -- Shroud of Turing -- Simulism -- Slashfic -- Sleepify -- Slenderman -- Smarks -- Smithee, Alan -- Snipe Hunt -- Snopes -- Sock Puppet -- Sodium Pentothal -- Sokal Hoax -- Sophists -- Steganography -- Strategery -- Streisand Effect -- Subliminal Advertising -- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious -- Swiftboating -- Synthetic Diamonds -- Tamagotchi Effect -- Tate, Nat -- Temp Music -- Teoing -- Tofurkey -- Tommy Westphall Universe -- Toyetic -- Trap Streets -- Treachery of Images, The -- Tribute Bands -- Trojan Horse -- Trompe L'oeil -- Truman Syndrome -- Truth Claim -- Truthiness -- Tulipomania -- Tupac Hologram -- Turing Test -- Turtles All the Way Down -- Twerking Fail -- Umwelt -- Uncanny Valley -- Unreliable Narrator -- Utopia -- Van Doren, Charles -- Van Meegeren, Han -- Viral Marketing -- Virtue Signaling -- Voight-Kampff Machine -- Vomitoriums -- War of the Worlds, The -- Warhol, Andy -- Washington Generals -- Whataboutism -- Whorfianism -- Wiping -- Woozle Effect -- 'Work of Fiction' Disclaimer -- X.A.I. -- Xenu -- Yellow Journalism -- Zardulu -- Zeno's Paradox -- Afterword -- Inspirations -- Acknowledgments -- Copyright Page.
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Keywords: Common fallacies