From the Book - First edition.
Other animals: Evolution of the con
Apocalypticism: the end of the world as we know it
Pseudoarkeology: The ark at the end of the rainbow
Predetermined combat: Gladiators and pro wrestlers
Selling empires: The Julian purchase
Cryptozoology: The Loch Ness Monster
Sacred relics: The precious prepuce
Gender bending: Pope Joan
Sindonology: The Shroud of Turin
Renaissance reprobates: Michelangelo's Cupid
Fraudulent ethnicity: Psalmanazar
Romantic suicide: Thomas Chatterton
Counterfeit wine: Thomas Jefferson's Lafite
PseudoShakespeare: The boy who would be bard
Cryptoanthropology: The saga of Bigfoot
Alternate realities: Faked photographs
Aerial feats: Edgar Allan Poe and the great balloon hoax
Communing with the departed: Spiritualism and evolution
Diddling: The original con man
Pseudoarchaeology: The Davenport tablets
Ultimate diets: Breatharianism
Deathbed conversions: The Lady Hope
Forged documents: The Priory of Sion
Public credulity: Political lies
Political persecutions: The Dreyfus affair
Financial fraud: The scammer scammed
Fake paleoanthropology: Piltdown
Arctic exploration: Robert Peary
Quack medicine: Radionics
Mythogenesis: the six Mona Lisas
Fake music: Fritz Kreisler
Pseudoplanetology: Flat and hollow Earths
Fake art: Tribute or exploitation?
Dialectical biology: Lysenkoism and its consequences
Counterfeit cadavers: "The man who never was"
Invented identities: Korla Pandit
Misguided archaeology: A lion in winter
Circumnavigations that weren't: The sad saga of Donald Crowhurst
Lunacy: Conspiracy theories
Human variation: The fallacy of race
Eternal life: the frozen self
Homeopathy: The memory of water
Pseudopaleontology: "Archaeoraptor"
Unreliable memories: Fake memoirs
Irrational hysteria: Vaccines and autism
Peer review: Jan Hendrik Schön
Bogus security: Fake bomb detectors
Fake journalism: Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, and their legacy.
