ANSWERS: 11
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The Piltdown Man, and the Cardiff Giant.
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The "eruption" of Mount Edgecumbe in 1974 was a pretty good April Fool's Day hoax. Tons of them here, that one included: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/
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The 'Globe Cooling' theory put forward by Global Warming deniers put forward with plenty of scientific data to prove their point would qualify for one.
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as a Christian I would have to say: Evolution!
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"Intelligent Design,", aka "Creation Science."
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The platypus. Nobody believed they existed at first. Even when given a stuffed platypus people shrugged it off as an obvious hoax. Joke is on them.
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Sarah Palin
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The War of the worlds was a damn funny example of how easy you mis-lead american citizens..
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Everything in Genesis that purports to explain cosmological, terrestrial, and human origins. (There are still some folks who take Genesis literally.)
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Yes, global warming/cooling/climate change comes to mind first. Then would come the denial of the 9/11 hijackers flying planes into buildings.
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I have to go with a baby mermaid skeleton that was apparently found...which turned out to be a false baby skeleton with a fish's rear end attached to it in lieux of legs. People believed in it for about two days until the test results came, but hey it made the papers and all, so...
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