<HTML>The thought-police organisation which demeans all rational critical thought and seeks to turn our children into mindless robots has come up with its next foul plot to control the world: a site to expose hoaxes.
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CONTACT: Kevin Christopher
E-mail:
press@csicop.org
CSICOP Tracks Misinformation and Hoaxes in the Wake of the Terrorist Attacks
September 20, 2001
The terrorist attacks in Manhattan, Washington, DC and the Pittsburgh area
constitute the most tragic and violent events ever perpetrated in the United
States. As with other tragedies, conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and other
forms of misinformation crop up almost immediately, playing on people's
hopes, fears, and appetite for amazing tales. E-mail has multiplied the
speed and extent to which hoaxes, rumors and urban legends spread.
In the interest of public service, the Committee for the Scientific
Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal has created the HoaxWatch Web page
(www.csicop.org/hoaxwatch), a source for factual information that debunks
much of the claptrap circulating in e-mails, the Internet and elsewhere. We
will update this site in reaction to new developments and we're extremely
interested in any e-mails or Web sites circulating suspicious information.
We ask everyone to please forward any suspicious e-mails or links to our
hotline e-mail address at
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