{"id":159,"date":"2006-04-01T11:41:29","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T11:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/01\/know-your-hoaxes\/"},"modified":"2006-04-01T11:41:29","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T11:41:29","slug":"know-your-hoaxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/01\/know-your-hoaxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Hoaxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/afarensis\/2006\/03\/31\/precambrian_archaeology\/\">silliness<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/transcript\/2006\/04\/pz_myers_hired_as_newest_gop_c.php\">running<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2006\/04\/purblind_what.php\">riot<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2006\/04\/orac_has_a_change_of_heart_1.php\">at ScienceBlogs<\/a>, it&#8217;s more important than ever to keep your fraud-detection skills sharp. Thankfully, the BBC is here to help, with a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/4400535.stm\">real news stories that sound like they might be hoaxes<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/007386.html#007386\">Making Light<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, they&#8217;re mostly not very funny. A couple are just lame celebrity trivia. But it&#8217;s the thought that counts.<\/p>\n<p>(As far as actual hoax posts go, I sort of like <a href=\"http:\/\/jefitoblog.com\/blog\/?p=674\">jefitoblog&#8217;s Idiot&#8217;s Guide to Kenny G<\/a> (&#8220;Is it his mellifluous playing or the beautiful songs that make the record so great? Heck, that&#8217;s easy: Both!&#8221;). April Fool posts in general tend toward the depressingly lame, though. Dying is easy, comedy is hard.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With silliness running riot at ScienceBlogs, it&#8217;s more important than ever to keep your fraud-detection skills sharp. Thankfully, the BBC is here to help, with a list of real news stories that sound like they might be hoaxes (via Making Light). Unfortunately, they&#8217;re mostly not very funny. A couple are just lame celebrity trivia. But&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/01\/know-your-hoaxes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Know Your Hoaxes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}