Sentences with phrase «example of a hoax»

Were there any notable examples of hoaxes we missed here?

WABBetaInfo, which spotted the feature, gave an example of a hoax chain - mail message that prompts the warning:

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Might one or two of these examples be «hoaxes»?

That means a hoax warhead — where one variety of uranium was swapped for another, for example — won't pass the test.

And despite Zuckerberg's initial assertion that it's «extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election,» Facebook is taking more steps to fight the problem — by making it easier to report fake stories, for example, and considering the addition of warning labels to stories that readers have flagged as phony.

One example of this is the «motivated rejection of science»; if you are personally convinced that global warming is a hoax, you are likely to reject any scientific information to the contrary — regardless of its accuracy.

There is plenty of evidence of online shenanigans and tricksters, and recent examples, such as the Manti Te'o fake - girlfriend hoax, are littered across popular culture.

The New York Times Editorial Board, for example, writes that «the bill is a cruel hoax that would help the wealthiest Americans at the expense of the poorest.»

If this is a hoax it will be used to smear, demonize, and be held up as an example of how low climate sceptics will stoop.

In the first presidential debate, though the moderator disappointingly failed to ask a question about was is arguably the single most critical issue facing human civilization today — human - caused climate change — the Democratic nominee for President, Hillary Clinton, forced the issue herself by calling out Donald Trump for his denial of climate change, noting that he, for example, in a past tweet dismissed climate change as a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese (indeed Trump has posted at least a half - dozen climate change - denying tweets over the past few years).

I do admit, though, there are a lot of your fellow luke - and non-warmers who apparently believe the world's scientists are engaged in some massive conspiracy to perpetrate a hoax (see previous comment for example).]

Dr. Gleick and his apologists are a classic example of the lengths to which the global warming — now called climate change — conspirators have been willing to go to maintain the hoax.

This whole «Greenhouse Effect» conjecture (It ceased being a hypothesis when it caused everything and everything was proof of it) is the saddest example of «post modern» science ever seen, what a complete and total HOAX, it makes the Piltdown Man look respectable and peer reviewed......

President Donald Trump, for example, has claimed global warming is a «hoax,» and he has named well - known climate deniers to lead the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy, among other posts.

For example, 67 percent of respondents, including 48 percent of Republicans and 72 percent of independents, said they were less likely to vote for a candidate who said that human - caused climate change is a hoax.