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 / Rex Sorgatz ; Lorenzo Petrantoni, illustrator.

Slingshotting through conspiracy theories, internet and popular culture, and perplexing psychological phenomena, this compendium illuminates deliriously diverse subjects: Artificial Intelligence, Auto-Tune, Chilean Sea Bass, Claques, Clickbait, Cognitive Dissonance, Cryptids, Dark Matter, False Flag...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sorgatz, Rex (Author)
Other Authors:	Petrantoni, Lorenzo, 1970- (Illustrator)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Abrams, 2018.
Subjects:	Common fallacies > Encyclopedias. Hoaxes > Encyclopedias. Swindlers and swindling > Encyclopedias. Fraud > Encyclopedias. Common fallacies. Common fallacies
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
3D Printing
13th Floor, The
555-2368
Aether
Agnotology
Alien Space Bats
Alt-History
Alternative Facts
Anti-Vaxxers
Apocrypha
Archies, The
Area 51
Astroturfing
Auto-Tune
Autobiography of Howard Hughes
Automated Dialogue Replacement
Backfire Effect
Backmasking
Backwards R
Bananadine
Barnum Effect
Barron, John
Beanie Baby Bubble
Behold a Pale Horse
Bellman's Fallacy
Berenstain Bears Conspiracy
Big Lie, The
Birthers
Black Propaganda
Blair, Jayson
The Blair Witch Project
Bogus Pipeline
Bonsai Kitten
Botox
Brain in a Vat
Buggs, The
Bullshit
Canary Trap
Canned Heat
Cannibal Holocaust
Capgras Delusion
Cardiff Giant
Catfish
Celebrity Sex Tapes
Chewbacca Defense
Chilean Sea Bass
Chinese Art Reproduction
Chinese Whispers
Church of SubGenius
Clapter
Claque
Clickbait
Clifton, Tony
Cognitive Dissonance
Cold Fusion
Coleman, Allegra
Concern Trolling
Confidence Game
Confirmation Bias
Cosplay
Cotard Delusion
Crisis Actors
Cryptids
Cunningham's Law
Cyborg
Dark Energy
Dark Side of the Rainbow
Deep State
Defictionalized Products
Doe, John
Dolezal, Rachel
Dolly
Donkey Punch
Doublethink
Dream Argument
Dress, The
Eliza Effect
Esperanto
Esquivalience
Exploding Pop Rocks
F for Fake
Factoid
Fake Shemp
False Flag Operation
Fanfic
Filter Bubble
Finstagram
Fiverr
Flat Earth Theory
Foreign Branding
Fountain
Fourth Wall, The
Frankenfood
Fregoli Delusion
FUD
Gaslighting
Genovese, Kitty
Gerrymandering
Glass, Stephen
Gospel of Jesus's Wife
Greebles
Grunge Speak
Histories
Hitler Diaries
Homer
Honeypot.
Honeytrap
Houdini, Harry
Human Cloning
Humbuggery
Hypnosis
Idaho
If I Did It
Illegal Prime Number
Impostor Syndrome
Infinite Monkey Theorem
Internet Research Agency
Internet Troll
Jabberwocky
Jenkem
Joseph McCarthy's List
Karaoke
Kayfabe
Kettle Logic
Knockoff Handbags
Kuleshov Effect
Larp
Laugh Track
LeRoy, JT
Lie-to-Children
Long, Huey
Lorem Ipsum
Manchurian Candidate
Mandela Effect
Manning, David
March of Time, The
Masked Marauders, The
Mechanical Turk
Meme Magic
Mere-Exposure Effect
Method, The
Miku, Hatsune
Milli Vanilli
Million Little Pieces, A
Mimicry
Mockbuster
Modest Proposal, A
Moirologist
Mondegreen
Money
Moon Landing Hoax
Munchausen Syndrome
Nacirema
Naked Came the Stranger
Newspeak
Noble Lie
Noddy
Nonce Word
Not Even Wrong
Null Island
Omnipotence Paradox
One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge
Operation Mindfuck
Order of the Occullt Hand
Orgasms
Overton Window
Pareidolia
Pascal's Wager
Passing
Paul is Dead
Phantom Limbs
Phantom Time Hypothess
Phantom Vibration Syndrome
Philosopher's Stone
Photoshopping
Placebo Effect
Plandid
Plastic Surgery
Plato's Cave
Polygraph
Ponzi Scheme
Pope Joan
Pornography
Potemkin Village
Prester John
Product Displacement
Product Placement
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The
Pseudo-Event
Push Poll
Quid Pro Quo Gossip
Radar Chaff
Rape on Campus, A
Rashomon Effect
Rathergate
Ray's Pizza
RealDoll
Realist, The
Reality-Based Community
Red Murcury
Red Pill, The
Reichstag Fire
Report from Iron Mountain, The
Retconning
Robinson Crusoe
Rockefeller, Clark
Rorshach Test
Rosenhan Experiment
Ruiz, Rosie.
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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