But when it comes to professional wrestling, outrageous fakery is central to the appeal.
Perhaps, in a world of olfactory fakery, this is one tip for the wise.
Japan's Otsuka Museum of Art, opened this spring, is a temple of fakery.
There has to be action to both uncover the frauds and make the cost of fakery too high to risk.
In fact, faking his fakery may have been his master stroke, since no amount of sleuthing could detect forgeries that never existed.
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The head of the CIA undone by email, anonymous trolls ruling Reddit, fakery on Facebook and false Sandy news on Twitter.
Though they knew the bogus drawings had come from Eric Hebborn, they could not forensically prove his fakery since his paper and ink were genuinely antique.
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In some cases he regarded fakery as a means of helping people in need, while also bringing chaos to the art market when the forgeries were cashed in at auction.
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Indeed, when reformers made it illegal to sell gin without a license, gin sellers responded with the "puss and mew, " a bit of mechanical fakery masquerading as an 18th-century vending machine.
In effect, our government is championing fakery and honoring Las Vegas instead of the New York symbol that has served as a beacon of freedom for many as they enter the United States.
And to add a final touch of authenticity, he had Hebborn cover the counterfeit van de Velde signature with that of Jan Brueghel, the sort of petty fakery you might expect to find on a genuinely old painting.
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