Johor hominid photos Hoaxed

[Trithemius]

Not surprising, but incredibly pathetic. It's not known whether the hoax was perpetrated by the people conducting the investigation, or on them. Some photos of the supposed Johor hominid were released. This link (http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/johorrelease/) shows a section of one of the photos, of the creature's eyes, and a sketch made from the photo.

This link (http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/johorhoaxmore/) and this link (http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/johor-pix-hoax/) show that the photos were copied from what appears to be a French anthropology book, and which photos were used. The johorhominid.org website has apparently been shut down also.

Some people are still holding out hope that only the photos were hoaxed and there really is a creature out there, but I seriously doubt it now.

[Kahlil the Heretic]

My money is still on sasquatch.

[Laisrean]

I seen the picture of the eyes before it was revealed it was a hoax, and it looked incredibly fake to me. I don't see how it could have fooled anyone.

That said I like to believe there is still something out there...

[Little Billy]

Not surprising, but incredibly pathetic. It's not known whether the hoax was perpetrated by the people conducting the investigation, or on them.

Why is that pathetic?

LB,
Loves a good hoax.

[Young_BRWolf]

im with LB what wrong with agood hoax? did you see the golden mermaid thing that was kinda cool looking

[Agaliha]

Interesting.
Well this isn't the only hoax to be found in anthropology. There was a few more, like the Piltdown man. I'm not too suprised.

[Zibblsnrt]

Why is that pathetic?

LB,
Loves a good hoax.

This doesn't look like a good hoax, though. ;)

Piltdown Man and Alan Sokal's Social Text article, now, those were fantabulous hoaxes.


im with LB what wrong with agood hoax?

Well, when they're taken beyond the realm of "neat camera trick here" or whatever (I greatly admire well-done visual effects, stuff like that, and have begun to become a fan of amateur special effects due to things like the fan-produced lightsaber duels (http://youtube.com/watch?v=LqEZvzYxROA) that have been floating around lately) and into the realm of more active, deliberate deception, I start losing respect for the people pulling them off.

Sure, most people proposing ghost photos or past lives or mermaids in their backyard or something try for the latter and end up as the former. Even if I'm calling most of those guys out as liars and rightfully so, I can still remain detached enough to admire the work they put into things.

After a point, though, the impacts of a falsehood can start to blot out any professional admiration I can have for it. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are a textbook example of a very good hoax indeed - they're taught as fact in many countries, and a lot of people in the US or Canada are dense enough to still believe them. I'm not terribly inclined to have much respect for their fabricators, or those who know they're false but continue to spread them anyway, though.

What's worse is when people make the stuff up out of thin air and believe their own lies from the start, though that's something I feel more pity for than contempt.

[Trithemius]

Why is that pathetic?

LB,
Loves a good hoax.

The clowns who did this didn't even make the effort to get a monkey costume and go out in the woods for a photo shoot. They took pictures out of a frickin' book and said "Look, look at the Bigfoot pictures we took!"

Yeah, that's pathetic.

And it's not a good hoax.