US News & World Report exposes hoaxes.
Publication Date: 01-SEP-02
Publication Title: NCAHF Newsletter
Format: Online

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Professed surgical insertions of goat gonads into human gonads and breatharianism were among the scams and schemes described in the August 26/September 2 special issue of US News & World Report on "The Art of the Hoax."

The goat gonad transplants were promoted in the 1920s and 1930s by John Brinkley, who had a diploma mill medical degree, as a treatment for impotence and eventually a variety of ailments including...

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