Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

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Mary Jane Blige shows off her manicure at an album launch for Carl Thomas in 2000. Photograph: Steve Azzara/Corbis via Getty Images The internet is full of photoshopped pictures that just don't make any sense and somehow we still manage to believe them. One of those fake viral photos was a picture of a cow chilling on a BMW. Well turns out, no car was damaged in the making of this photo since the cow was chilling on the grass like it was supposed to. Early in 1870, it was revealed as a fake, the creation of New Yorker George Hull, who had paid for it to be carved out of stone. Beringer’s fraudulent fossils

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Physician Johann Beringer was amazed when he was presented with fossils “found” in Wurzburg, Germany, in 1725, which depicted incredible scenes: the forms of birds, bees, snails, lizards, plants with flowers, frogs mating and insects feeding, not to mention comets, moons and suns. Some claims of pseudohistory or pseudoscience do warrant public concern: for example, Holocaust denial, the teaching of creationism or 'intelligent design', or portraying global warming as a hoax. These are significant to both public and personal decision making. To solve such problems, Fritze suggests more teaching of critical thinking (pp. 60, 219). This would seem plausible, were it not for the empirical evidence otherwise. Belief in the paranormal is extraordinarily resilient to such teaching (as currently taught). Levels of belief, for example, have remained steady over several decades as 'critical thinking' instruction has spread. Deeper thinking seems to be correlated, rather, with personalities that are open to new experiences, and that also exercise high standards of proof: reflecting a natural selection epistemic model, coupling blind variation and selective retention. (18) Education surely seems appropriate, but only if we use a better model of 'critical thinking' (or 'rationality').Denial of America’s great progress in space exploration and belief in these myths is “more of an ideological thing—a political thing—than it is a scientific thing,” Fienberg notes. After watching the programme, hundreds of people phoned in asking how they could grow their own tree. Alas, it was an April Fools’ Day joke. However, there is nothing real about this photo. Belgian artist Thierry Lechanteur created it, using AI. But a number of accounts that shared this photo failed to mention that. If your car has been serviced by an independent garage, you can ask them to produce copies of any documentation they hold regarding your vehicle, although they won’t necessarily have these on file. The writer of the articles knew the story wasn’t true and had meant for this to be satire. This is when a writer uses humour and exaggeration to make fun of silly ideas, in this case that there were creatures living on the Moon.

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Ideally, a car will have been issued with a service book in which the garage performing each service will log the vehicle mileage, detail the completed work and authenticate the information with a stamp.

The famous celebrity Paris Hilton is mostly known for spending a huge amount of money on things none of us could possibly afford. Even though this person doesn't have any problem with publicly showing her inherited money, she's definitely not that ignorant to wear a t-shirt that calls other people poor. She just calls them... desperate. Well, it's better than poor. Right? John Dillinger, in case you need a refresher, was a gangster who gained infamy in the 1930s for robbing banks and also for being handsome. The punchline of Dillinger's story is that he was taken down by the FBI and then buried under 3 feet of concrete, and ever since there are people who say it wasn't really John Dillinger who got shot by the FBI that night, hence all the concrete. Clearly, such creations are much less ‘real’ than a cast or a genuine fossil, but again they are not exactly a fake either as they are based on what we know of these species and their anatomy. You don’t have to have the arms of a new tyrannosaur preserved to make a good sculpture when all of its close relatives have short arms with two fingers, and certain key features of the joints and claws are near universal in carnivorous dinosaurs. Sculpting the arms and adding them to your mount will make the display a much better representation of what the skeleton would have looked like than with leaving them out. We have a good understanding of, and can make solid predictions about, the missing parts and they are not a figment of imagination but based on real research and understanding of the animal’s biology and evolution. This is unsurprising. There is a reason why artists such as Chaun Legend (whose clients include Kylie Jenner and Cardi B), Mei Kawajiri (named one of the 2019 New Wave Creatives at the British Fashion awards) and Betina Goldstein (responsible for the talons of Zoë Kravitz, Florence Pugh and Gemma Chan) are known as “nail artists”. And there is a reason why nail salons such as DryBy (responsible for the Duchess of Sussex’s wedding manicure), the uber-cool Camberwell-based Reecey Roo and Ama Nails, the Brixton salon led by British Vogue favourite Ama Quashie, are making waves in the industry. Under their watch, manicure has been elevated to an art form. I also regularly use AI detection software, it's pretty good although AI creation software is improved all the time so it doesn't always work with newer versions.

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This would be an amazing mountain to visit, but if it actually existed, there is a great chance you would know more about it and more people would visit it. Also, there would be a far greater amount of photos from this location. So, when somebody went to that location and actually captured the mountain, it was no surprise that the "Turtle Mountain" is actually just the simple, yet beautiful ""Pilot Mountain" in North Carolina.

At the end of the day, Professor Allchin has his ideas and opinions and I have the ideas and narrative that I presented in Invented Knowledge. Some readers will agree with him and some will agree with me. And that is exactly the sort of diversity of scholarly discourse that Allchin claims to respect. It would have been nice if he had reviewed the book I wrote rather than telling us about how he writes the history of science. Notes Then I put them through a reverse image search to try and find when & where they were uploaded first, this often tells us more about the source. Perhaps the most common question that is posed to museum staff and educators dealing with things like fossils and other artefacts is: “Is it real?”. In itself, it’s a perfectly reasonable question, especially when someone has the unexpected privilege to touch and hold a specimen and wants to know if this really is an original of some kind. If he was at all remorseful, he had a strange way of showing it: not long after his arrival he started the Poyais pitch all over again. His initial investment may have evaporated, but his mastery of the art of persuasion was undiminished. In a matter of months, he had a new group of settlers and investors ready to go. France, though, was a bit more stringent than England in its passport requirements: when the government saw a flood of applications to a country no one had heard of, a commission was set to investigate the matter. MacGregor was thrown in jail. After a brief return to Edinburgh, he was forced to flee once more, pursued by the wrath of the original Poyais bondholders. He died in 1845, in Caracas. To this day, the land that was Poyais remains a desolate and undeveloped wilderness—a testament to the power of the rope in able hands.